Paul Galbraith

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Paul Galbraith (born March 1964 in Edinburgh ) is a Scottish classical guitarist . He developed an eight-string guitar and an alternative playing position for the concert guitar.

Life

Galbraith spent the first years of life in Scotland and Malawi before the family moved to London. There he took piano lessons at the age of seven and began playing the guitar at the age of eight. Even after the eleven-year-old returned to Edinburgh, he continued to take lessons on both instruments. He gave his first concert at the age of twelve in 1976, his first concert with orchestra at Chetham's Music School in Manchester in 1980.

From 1981 Galbraith successfully took part in several competitions, such as the first “Segovia International Guitar Competition” in Kent, on the occasion of which Andrés Segovia personally predicted a great artistic future for him, the BBC's “Young Musician of the Year” competition and the “ Esztergom International Guitar Festival “1983.

Galbraith developed an increasing dissatisfaction with the classical guitar posture and experimented with alternative postures, first sitting cross-legged on the floor, then with a cello-like "spike" on the lower edge of the frame and later with a resonance box under the "spike".

In the early 1990s, while searching for an adequate guitar arrangement for Johannes Brahms , Galbraith recognized “Variations on a theme of its own, Op. 21a “the possibilities of an eight-string guitar . He had a corresponding instrument with an extended range in bass and treble made by the English guitar maker David Rubio. This instrument, based among other things on the bridge and fret arrangement of the Orpheoreon , became known as the "Brahms guitar".

Galbraith has lived with his family in São Paulo since 1996 .

Discography

  • French Impressions , 8-string guitar, Delos, 2006.
  • In Every Lake the Moon Shines Full , 8-string guitar, Delos, 2001.
  • Lute Suites of JS Bach , 8-string guitar, Delos, 2000.
  • Paul Galbraith Plays Haydn , 8-string guitar, Delos, 1999.
  • Bach: The Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin , 8-string guitar, Delos, 1998 (nominated for the Grammy Awards )
  • Introducing the Brahms Guitar , 8-string guitar, Watercourse, 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Graham Wade: A Conversation with Paul Galbraith , Interview, 1994
personal data
SURNAME Galbraith, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh , Scotland