Matthew McAllister
After an extremely busy start to his professional career, Natural Studio Records artist Matthew McAllister has been delighting audiences worldwide with his insightful performances and effortless presentation.
A short film with interview and highlights from a concert at the Cathedral of the isles in the summer of 2012.
Here are a couple more lovely Scottish Lute Pieces, this time on a Bill Kelday Classical Guitar.
The tunes are a Courante and the Canaries.
Enjoy!
I am having a look through old bits and pieces of film from previous concerts and projects and I came across this nice performance of two Scottish Lute Pieces in Bill Kelday and Michael Ritchie’s workshop in Fintry Scotland.
The first tune is ‘Untitled’ from the Rowallan Manuscript and the second is ‘Blew Ribben’ from the Wemyss Manuscript. They are gorgeous little tunes and sound great on this Michael Ritchie guitar.
We left the door to the workshop open so you can hear the birds singing along!
Ever wondered how the Rosette is made and fitted into a guitar? I found out in this second instalment of short films I am making on guitar building featuring Scottish Luthier Michael Ritchie.
These films are all shot each in a single fairly short visit to Michael’s workshop. He works away in front of me, I ask some questions and explains the various techniques and approaches as he works. The style of filming is deliberately close in and hand held so as to capture the intricacies of the craft and atmosphere of the workshop.
A new Classical Guitar Summer School has been launched at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. This course is a one week immersion in the study of classical guitar focusing on technical and musical development. It is a great opportunity to study with me and some of the other guitar teachers at the Conservatoire.
Throughout this short course, students will develop skills aiding them in further study, audition preparation, competition entry and practice planning.
Students will have the opportunity to experience the life of a full time music student whilst working with our renowned Conservatoire teaching staff.
15th - 19th July 2013.
For more details contact the RCS http://www.rcs.ac.uk Tel: 0141 332 4101
The Gitaarsalon in Enkhuizen Holland just uploaded a video of my performance of David Kellner’s Fantasia on my Ten String Guitar made by Scottish Luthier Colin Morison.
Silent Night ~ Merry Christmas!
Instead of a Christmas Card I have made a little video to help spread the festive spirit and wish you all the best for the holidays.
Thank you for all your support this year I appreciate it very much.
See you in 2013!
I am collaborating with Scottish Luthier Michael Ritchie on a series of videos focusing on various aspects of guitar building.
In the first episode you can see Michael joining a top in the traditional fashion using hot hide glue and fire!
Here are a few photos from the Big Guitar Weekend and the Classics Unwrapped Concert hosted by BBC Radio Scotland with presenter and Tenor Jamie MacDougall.
The show will be broadcast for the first time tonight (Tuesday 6th November) at 20:05 here is the link to the programme.
You can listen live on radio both MW and FM, on-line and catch up on BBC iPlayer Radio!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nq2vg
The BBC were present throughout the weekend recording concerts and conducting interviews alongside presenting and recording the Saturday night concert.
Tune in to hear the show will include performances and interviews from a whole host of artists and students including Allan Neave, Ian Watt, Maxwell String Quartet, Pavel Steidl, Sean Shibe, Sasha Savaloni, Alison Mcneill, Marco Ramelli, presenter Jamie MacDougall and also yours truly Matthew McAllister.
Here is my encore Always by your side by Ralph Towner live at the Cathedral of the Isles on the Island of Cumbrae in September 2012.
A group of very talented art students attended my concert with flautist Aisling Agnew at the Stadtmusuem of Siegburg last Saturday night. Here are some of the drawings they made inspired by our playing. We would like to say a big thank you to Charlotte, Ben, Florian & Martin for their lovely gifts of these drawings and wish them the best in their studies.
Here is a performance of ‘Andantino’ live in Siegburg, Germany.
‘Andantino’ is the final movement of Leo Brouwer’s Suite No.2 which is featured on my latest solo album ‘Bach & Brouwer’.
You can see all three movement of the suites in live performance across three different countries at the link below. Holland / Peru / Germany.
https://twitter.com/McAllisterpluck/status/245851509861019648
Some photos from the Agnew McAllister Summer Tour which featured performances at the 40th National Flute Association of America Convention in Las Vegas, the 21st Iserlohn Guitar Symposium in Germany and the 8th International British Flute Society Convention in England alongside many other stops along the way.
For more photos see Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Agnew-McAllister-Duo/134093156658824
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Matthew-McAllister-Classical-Guitarist/119117781457081
Here is another video from my visit to GSI Los Angeles during my recent tour in the US. This video is some beautiful music by Antonio Lauro played on a 1974 David Rubio ‘PF’. I really enjoyed this instrument which had a great balanced sound with a rich bass and warm trebles.
For more videos from the session and to read the GSI blog about the visit follow the link below.
Whilst I was on tour in the US in August I dropped by GSI Los Angeles and tried out some lovely guitars. Here is a Bach Sarabande on a 2007 Henner Hagenlocher which had a lovely clear crisp sound and I think suited baroque repertoire very well.
For more videos from the session and to read the GSI blog about the visit follow the link below.
