Frank Wallace: Artistic Dir. of Festival 21; co-curator of Second Sundays Classical Guitar Series, NYC.





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Frank Wallace is supported in part by a grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Guitar Lessons
Frank Wallace teaches classical guitar at Concord Community Music School, Two Rivers Music in Peterborough NH and at his home in Antrim NH. He has taught at all levels and is equally happy teaching 6 year old or 60 year olds, beginners or professionals. He has a BM degree from San Fancisco Conservatory of Music and 35 years teacing experience at institutions such as New England Conservatory, Franklin Pierce College and Plymouth State College.

Call 603 588 6121 and leave a message or write wallacecomposer[at]gmail.com. Frank will call you back soon.

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Read Frank's Tumblr blogs: Frank Wallace (news and views); Festival 21; Voice and Guitar; Second Sundays ; videos at: You Tube

BIOGRAPHY
American Record Guide calls Frank Wallace’s compositions “exciting, unpredictable, and fresh”. Fanfare magazine has dubbed him a composer with “an authentic expressive voice” and a “high standard of musical interest” who performs with “flawless technical proficiency”. New music reviewers have also honored Wallace’s work: Frank Oteri of NewMusicBox.org calls it “contemporary musical emancipation”. The New Hampshire Council on the Arts has twice honored Wallace’s compositions with the prestigious Artist Fellowship Award: in 2001 for Frank Wallace, his own new works (Gyre 10012), his debut recording on Gyre of his own compositions, and in 2006 for the Duo LiveOak CD Woman of the Water (Gyre 10082). Wallace’s works showcase the classical guitar in solo, duo and trio, as well as in chamber works with voice, flute, cello, English horn, mandolin, and piano. His compositional style has many influences, from the blues and jazz to medieval and avant garde. Great passion and a sense of humor infuse both his compositions and his performances.

In the past ten years Frank Wallace has become one of the most prolific composers of songs with classical guitar of our time. He has written over 90 songs set to classical guitar or lute, most of them in groups (cycles) ranging from six to fifteen songs, set to poetry from many sources, including Pulitzer-prize winning poet Theodore Roethke, Robert Creeley, Roald Hoffmann, Rumi, Guillevic, Shem Tov Ben Palquera, his own grandfather and wife Nancy Knowles. The richness and complexity of his song accompaniments and his compelling vocal melodies highlight the influence of his mentors, from Dowland to Schubert to Britten.

“He is an impressive talent in every respect; he is a strong guitarist, a composer with a distinct voice, and a confident vocalist.”—Soundboard

On stage, Wallace is known for his “elegant virtuosity” (Classics Today) on the solo guitar as well as being a master of self-accompanied song. He tours internationally, performing music of the 21st century both as a soloist and as Duo LiveOakwith mezzo-soprano Nancy Knowles. Wallace and Knowles originally founded LiveOak in 1976 (while he was on the guitar faculty at New England Conservatory) as an early music ensemble with the late John Fleagle.

Frank Wallace is the director of Boston Classical Guitar Society’s Festival 21, celebrating all that’s new in classical guitar. He recently served a two-year term as artistic director of the Society. In New York City Wallace co-directs the Second Sundays Classical Guitar Series at Roger Smith Arts. He is currently on the faculty of the The Concord Community Muisc School [Concord, NH] and Two Rivers Music School in Peterborough NH. He has taught at the New England Conservatory, Plymouth State College, Emmanuel College, Keene State College and Franklin Pierce University in Rindge NH and has a B.M. degree from San Francisco Conservatory.

Wallace’s complete works and recordings are available at www.gyremusic.com. He has also recorded for Titanic, Centaur, and Musical Heritage Society, which re-released a number of LiveOak and Frank Wallace recordings in 2008. Several compositions are published by Tuscany Publications, and Clear Note Publications. (PDFs available for download.)  His works have been featured in Guitar Review, Fingerstyle Magazine and The LSA Quarterly.

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