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Alberta Khoury Classical Guitar student / performer "...You have excellent facility and get through
the notes quite "brilliantly..." Christopher
J. Keane
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How
I started to play the guitar? In 1998 for my 3rd birthday, amongst other things, I had asked for a guitar. So my parents took me to Venue Music in Parramatta and we bought a small guitar. While still in the music store, the friendly salesperson gave me three guitar books as a gift (Progressive Guitar, Method for young beginners A/B and Book 2 by Andrew Scott & Gary Turner.) I played on this guitar for almost two years learning and memorising a lot of the pieces from the books I had with my parents help. In April 2000, I started my classical guitar studies with Alfred Alexander. I was four and a half years old then. In the begining I took a half an hour lesson per week and gradually increased it to an hour, then 3 hours as my ambition and patience with the guitar grew, thanks to my teacher who always found ways to keep my attention. For a while I was playing Aaron Shearer's studies, which stayed in my memory long enough and helped me to improve my technique. Also new pieces started to appeal to me and I wasn't too concerned of how difficult they were. If I like it, I play it. |
With every new musical work, a lot
of time is needed, and I do not practice as much as many people might
think. As my teacher always says, one hour of good practice is worth many hours of practicing the wrong way. So for years now, my memory has helped me to remember many pieces and my repertoire grew. When I'm choosing what to play, I like the musical composition to appeal to me first. And because of that, I'm always looking for interesting music to perform, and listening and watching many good guitarists. Here are some of my favourites: Alfred Alexander (My teacher), Timothy Kain (ANU Canberra), Tom Ward (Tasmania) and Joseph Littlefield (Surry Hills). And of course Andres Segovia, Julian Bream, Narciso Yeppes, Paco de Lucia, Roland Dyens and Stepan Rak. Special thanks to my teacher Alfred Alexander, for his patience and fresh approach. Thanks to Tom Ward and Joseph Littlefield for their continuous technical guidance, musical style and teachings. Also warm thanks for classical guitarist / teacher Ms. Michelle Blythe for offering me the first opportunity to perform a half an hour program in July 2004 at the Tara Anglican School for girls. |
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