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Mark Currey:
Tenor Guitar.
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Mark Currey first started
playing classical guitar at the age of ten and later studied music at
the University of Birmingham. He has been a guitar teacher,
conductor and composer based in York since 1996. His books
include Beyond Orange
and Hunting the Purple
Buffalo for younger guitarists and his favourite food
really is curry.
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Andrew Forrest:
Requinto
& Tenor Guitar.
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Andrew
Forrest has performed and taught the guitar throughout England since
the early 1960s. In 1975, he moved to North Yorkshire and has been
teaching in schools, working with both individuals and ensembles. Since
there was a shortage of suitable material available for his guitar
groups, he developed his arranging and compositional skills to produce
many duets, trios, quartets etc. |
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John Mackenzie:
Requinto
& Tenor Guitar.
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John
Mackenzie spent the latter part of the 1960s working with rock
bands. Having ‘gone legit’ by adopting
the classical
guitar, he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1976, later
becoming a Fellow of London College of Music. He took a PhD
from
Leeds University, and is the author of The Guitar Music of Stephen
Dodgson (Cadenza, 2006). |
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David Scarth:
Bass Guitar.
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David
Scarth plays a Gregory classical bass guitar designed specially for the
York Guitar Quartet. He has composed several works for the quartet. He
also has a parallel career as a jazz and rock musician (playing
electric bass) and as a media composer, having written music for film
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