for those of you who have just tunes in there are a couple of recitals approaching rapidly around melbourne and victoria. details are as follows   -   17 August, 3pm Solo Recital for the Victorian Classical Guitar Society St John's, Southgate works by Iannarelli, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Tansman and Albeniz   20 - 24 August Recitals with Zoë Black - Portland, Hamilton, Bendigo, Macedon and Montsalvat (Eltham)   20 August, 8pm Portland Arts Centre Glenelg Street Portland   21 August, 8pm Hamilton Performing Arts Centre Brown St Hamilton   22 August, 8pm The Capital View Street Bendigo   23 August, 8pm Lowland Farm Brougham Road Mt Macedon   24 August, 3pm Montsalvat Hillcrest Avenue Eltham

our new cd d'aujourd'hui is available right now from move records! you can buy it online from move www.move.com.au

we are launching the cd tuesday, july 29, at fortyfivedownstairs - 45 flinders lane melbourne. only ten clams gets you in and we'll be doing a special on-the-night-only price for the cd too. bargain! so even though it's a school night get along. if you haven't stepped foot within the hallowed walls of fortyfive then you should make doubly sure you make it as it's one of melbourne's best intimate recital spaces.

the cd should then be hitting 'all good record stores' soon after that, or you will be able to order it from move records

and check it out! monthly updates - pretty smooth huh...

and don't forget, you can still check out a sneaky preview of our new CD here

zoe and i have pretty much completed work on our new cd - just waiting on a master cd, finishing off graphic design and programme notes then it's off to the people whole turn it into a 'compact disc'. so far we are stoked, martin, blake and rhys at move have done a tip top job. hopefully we shan't be the only ones who think so!! i have uploaded a preview track here for your aural excitement...or otherwise...hoping to finally get the disc out within the next two months...you can kinda only get to this secret page preview thing by reading this blog, so i hope you feel special!!

zoe and i have a few dates for musica viva coming up - 5 concerts at the end of august, dates and further info to be posted soon. plus we'll be doing a cd launch too, once we know when the disc is on the way to being finished

i have a few solo gigs coming up in a few months time for the canberra, melbourne and hobart classical guitar societies

hobart - 8 august

canberra - 6 september [wesley music centre, canberra]

melbourne date tbc but most likely early august

again i shall post further info soon

been listening to this great lp by the nouvelle vague - bossa nova/lounge type covers of all these post-punk songs by depeche mode, public image, killing joke, xtc etc. got onto this one a bit late, it was released in 2004, but they breath new life into these tunes. and spinning the odd segovia lp too

of course i haven't been watching underbelly as it is illegal in victoria

let's see how long i maintain interest in this here we blog, which i will attempt to update whenever anything happens that i think may of interest to anyone in the public arena...probably not that often but here goes

  http://www.musicalprospects.biz/podcast/nov07.asp

zoë black and i are in the process of finishing off our debut cd for move records. featuring works by ourkouzounov, piazzolla, phillip houghton and premiere recordings of works by elena kats-chernin and young canberra-based composer timothy hansen. we're thinking march/april release so i guess that means you should look out for it in may/june...more info to follow...

i enter the studio again next week with guitar trek to finish off our new cd of australian works. this one features premiere recordings of recent works by richard charlton, martin wesley-smith, nigel westlake and phillip houghton. with the exception of nigel's piece all of the works were composed for guitar trek within the last ten years. this disc is a real beauty - no kidding! - and i play three guitars on it, lamentably not at the same time...we are still waiting on a release date for our fourth cd which features works by spanish and south american composers manuel de falla, joaquin turina, paolo bellinati among others. both these discs will be released on abc classics, and will be available for purchase here, as is our back catalogue

concerts page will be updated shortly with a few recitals for 08 but for now stick these two dates in your diary - 

22/06/08 - guitar trek - bateman's bay nsw [5pm start]

24/06/08 - guitar trek - trinity grammar school, sydney