Graham Wade
A graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge, and Fellow of Trinity College of Music, London, Graham was formerly Head of Strings and Professor of Guitar at the City of Leeds College of Music and Tutor in Guitar to the Universities of Leeds and York. His publications include biographies of Andres Segovia, Joaquin Rodrigo and Gina Bachauer, books on guitar history, and aspects of musical form. An Advisory Editor and contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, he has been appointed as General Editor for a series of paperbacks on music for a leading American publisher. He has been an external examiner in guitar at the Royal Welsh College of Music and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, and was an adjudicator for several international guitar competitions. Graham Wade has written programme notes for Andres Segovia and Julian Bream and liner notes for various leading record companies. Between 1990 and 1995 he was founder-editor of the European Guitar Teachers’ Association Journal (EGTA UK). He is internationally acknowledged as one of the foremost writers on the classical guitar. From the 1960s onwards he fulfilled many performing engagements throughout England, as well as playing recitals in Spain, Scandinavia, Holland, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Canada, etc. His travels and researches have taken him to Russia, China, Mongolia, India, Australia, North and West Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean and South America. In 1996 he gave lectures on the Segovia course at the University of Southern California, and in 1994 was Guest Speaker at Cordoba Guitar Festival on the art of Andres Segovia. In 1998 he spent some time at Brigham Young University, Utah, to research his biography of the pianist, Gina Bachauer. In 2002, Graham Wade was awarded the Schott Gold Medal for his contribution to Rodrigo studies and has given seminars on the composer’s music at universities and colleges world-wide including USA, Austria, Germany, Spain, Hungary and the Czech Republic, as well as lecturing at the Royal Academy of Music, London, the Royal Welsh College of Music, Cardiff, Wales and at West Dean and Bath international guitar festivals.
Publications: Joaquín Rodrigo - A Life in Music (GRM Publications 2006), Joaquín Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez (Mayflower Press, 1985) and Distant Sarabandes - The Solo Guitar Music of Joaquín Rodrigo (GRM Publications 1997), Segovia - A New Look at Andrés Segovia, His Life, His Music, Vols 1 & 2 (Mel Bay, Missouri, 1996), Segovia - a Celebration of his Life and Music (Allison & Busby, 1983), Maestro Segovia (Robson, 1986), Traditions of the Classical Guitar (Calder, 1980), Your Book of the Guitar (Faber 1980), Heitor Villa-Lobos and the Guitar by Turibio Santos (ed. and transl. from the Portuguese, Graham Wade, Wise Owl Music, 1985), The ICS/Graham Wade Guitar Method Vols 1 & 2 (ICS 1974/1976), The Shape of Music (Allison & Busby, 1983), The Guitarist’s Guide to J.S. Bach (Wise Owl Music, 1985), The Guitarist’s Guide to Associated Board Exams (with Brian Jeffery, GRM/Tecla, 1997), John Mills, Concert Guitarist - A Celebration (GRM Publications 1997), Guitar Teaching and Learning - Interpretation and Style (University of Reading 1998), Gina Bachauer - A Pianist’s Odyssey (GRM Publications, 1999)A Concise History of the Classic Guitar (Mel Bay, 2001), The Classical Guitar - A Complete History (Balafon, 2002, ed. John Morrish, thirteen essays by Graham Wade), A Concise Guide to Understanding Music (Mel Bay, 2002) etc.