Biography

I've been playing guitar since I was a teenager and I've been concentrating on instrumental guitar and songs since my mid 30s. I wrote my first instrumental pieces and songs in 1994. Most of the tracks on my first CD "Innocent Dreams" were written during 1997-1999.

In 2004 Adelaide Greenaway and I formed a duo - Zanthii Blue and in December 2006 we released a CD -These Places.

I released my latest CD of instrumental guitar music - Fine Light - in September 2013.

In 2017 I joined the Victorian Guitar Orchestra. I've been writing ensemble music over the past few years and my piece "Jade" was played by the Victorian Guitar Orchestra in 2018.

I'm honoured to have been awarded second prize in the Matt Withers Australian Music Composition Competition in 2018 for my piece "Storming" for classical guitar and string quartet. Storming has been performed by Matt Withers and Acacia Quartet in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne and released on their Imaginations album by ABC Classics.

I enjoy writing, recording and performing solo and ensemble pieces and am very happy to have joined Caoba Records in September 2020.

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