Composing has become an important part of my life as a guitarist.
Teaching, practising, arranging, performing, composing...
I need all of these ingredients in my musical life! 
During my fusion and rock days I always composed original material for the different bands that I led.
Composing for theatre and videos was easy and I found no problems at all doing "jingles" or composing the intro to a newsshow etc.
To write for sologuitar... that was a real problem!
In fact I never - apart from one or two youthful sins - even tried.​

Everything changed when my daughters started playing the cello/violin. I started writing small technical exercises - in the shape of fun and attractive pieces - for them.
If I could do it for the cello and the violin, of course I could do it for the guitar!
Said and done, I wrote "Eight short pieces" in a couple of days.​

The barrier was broken!​

At the moment I try to keep my pieces rather short and not too difficult as they initially where intended for teaching purposes.

That  being said, I see no problems whatsoever in including them in a concert program as the music itself is really enjoyable!​

 

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In collaboration with Guitarissimo Publications the following titles are published:​



- Eight Short Pieces​

- Collection Latina​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

- ​Variations on a Variation​​​​​

- 4 More​​​

- 2 Songs of Love​​​

- Valsa Brilliante​​​

- ​Valsa Piccante​​​​​​​​​​​​​



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Listen to excerpts from some of my pieces:

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