STEVE MARSH ALCM
Classical Guitarist, Composer and
Guitar Teacher
A MESSAGE FROM STEVE:
Hello! Welcome to my website.
Amongst these pages you'll find a potted history about me; a list of the compositions, arrangements and recordings I've done over the years (and how to purchase them!); details of guitar tuition and a News section which contains anything imminent with regard to concerts, new music, guitar projects, etc.
Also on this News section, exclusive articles will be frequently presented; these could take the form of an analysis of a particular piece of music on this site, or maybe a piece of writing on some aspect of a specific guitar technique or any other guitar-related subject, even including any new music I've recently come across which I think is particularly interesting.
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In the News section there is information about a Guitar Ensemble Day I'm running later this year. Numbers are limited, so please try and book early.
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The fourth annual Peak District Guitar Ensemble Weekend which guitarist Lorraine Eastwood and myself organise will be held next April 2013 (dates to follow soon) at the Alison House Hotel, Cromford, Matlock, Derbyshire. Places are limited to 20 students so really early booking is advisable. A brief resume of the previous one, held in April 2012 can be seen on the 'News' page. For more details just email me.
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‘THE GOTHIC SUITE’ COMMISSION
I've received a commission from the Young Guitarist’s Fund of North Devon to ‘orchestrate’ my composition The Gothic Suite. This piece, inspired by the writings of the American Gothic author Edgar Allan Poe, began life as a five-movement guitar solo written especially for a Halloween concert given by the myself in Cambridge in 1998. Since then the work, in particular, the first movement Diabolo, has gone through many varied arrangements including one for four guitars, seven guitars, for large guitar orchestra with violin, percussion, bass and vocals and orchestrated for wind band and full orchestra.
The Young Guitarists Fund have as their patron Xuefei Yang and the organisation was set up in January 2010 to support young classical guitarists from the North Devon area. They have commissioned me to enlarge the complete work by the addition of other instruments and at the time of writing these will include violin, cello and percussion. The work will receive its’ premiere in early 2013 in Turin where it will be performed by the North Devon Guitar Ensemble under the musical direction of Des Miles.
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Congratulations to Larissa Adamson! Larissa has been studying with me for a few years now and recently obtained a place at Durham University where she is studying music. Along with other musicians, she took part in the Beecham Scholarship competition at the University and won first prize entitling her to a three-year monetary prize. Well done Larissa.
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For anyone who has a liking for the splendid children's song THE TEDDY BEAR'S PICNIC, you might want to click on the link below. I arranged this piece for three guitars from a wonderful duet version which has been done by Derek Hasted (and published by Lathkill Music) and, my good friends Dave Preston and Maurice Albin played through it recently and thought we'd put it on You Tube.
Workshop
The last workshop looking at Final Confrontation, the 5th movement from my Gothic Suite is now available for you to read online or print off, Click here
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Examination Results
Several times each year I have students taking practical guitar examinations and I thought it would be really nice to mention their success here on my web-site.
Click here to view the results. Congratulations to all of you.
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13th March 08 - New section added
Within the News section you will now find a page that gives details of new editions available from my music publishing company Lathkill Music Click here
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"Painting Should Be Fun"
The latest cd by Judy Dunlop and Steve Marsh is now available.
Visit the News section Click here for more information.
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Article - Tuning Up Tips
There is an article called Tuning Up Tips, which may help you if you encounter problems getting your guitar in tune.
You can still access the previous article which concerns Performance Anxiety so if you suffer a little (or a lot) from this, the article may help.
If anyone has any comments or writings which perhaps may be of interest to other guitarists, please feel free to send them in and I'll do my best to put the most interesting ones on this page.
If you want to ask me about guitar tuition, booking me for a performance or something concerning one of my compositions (for example: why I chose to do a certain fingering; how I got the idea for a particular piece, etc.) or anything to do with this site, just get in touch by going to the Contact page.
I hope you enjoy browsing this site and if you like what you see, and would like Sue Holton to build something similar for you then please get in touch with Sue via her email here as I know she will be delighted to give you more information.
Thank you for visiting www.stevemarsh.uk.com and I hope you'll return often.
All the best
Steve Marsh
