Marin Magazine June 2024

The Austin-Marie Collection of historical guitars is featured in the June 2024 issue of Marin Magazine.

2024 Cambridge Consortium for Guitar Research symposium

The Cambridge Consortium for Guitar Research held its 2024 symposium on April 12th–15th with members presenting on topics related to the history of the guitar prior to the twentieth century.  This year’s event was held at Magdelene College in the University of Cambridge and concluded with a concert at the Round Church, opposite St. John’s […]

The Cambridge Consortium for Guitar Research

The Cambridge Consortium for Guitar Research is a select group of internationally recognized experts on all matters related to the guitar and its history, with an emphasis on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Consortium holds a four-day symposium every other year in the University of Cambridge featuring academic presentations and live performances on historical […]

Christopher Page performs Progressive Study by Fernando Sor

In late September 2021, I traveled to Cambridge, England to attend a four-day symposium held by the Cambridge Consortium for Guitar Research. During my stay, I videoed Dr. Christopher Page performing Fernando Sor’s, Progressive Study at Sidney Sussex Chapel.

Exploring Three centuries of Guitar

In the fall of 2023, an event showcasing the Austin-Marie Collection of historical guitars was held at the Marin Art & Garden Center in Ross, California. Guitar curator Jeff Wells spoke about the collection and was joined by guitarists Jon Mendle, Christopher Mallett, Carolyn Smith, and Richard Savino. The artists performed period music on selected […]

Guitar Making in Nineteenth-Century London

Guitar Making in Nineteenth-Century London by Dr. James Westbrook is now available! https://www.classicalguitar.co.uk/shop/guitar-making-in-nineteenth-century-london/ Guitar Making In Nineteenth-Century London  

THE GREAT VOGUE FOR THE GUITAR

The guitar craze that began with the Folk Revival Movement in the late 1940s and transitioned into the rock and roll bands of the 1950s-’70s is familiar to most everyone old enough to remember. But there was another craze for the guitar born in Western Europe over two centuries ago at the dawn of the […]