Frank Wallace is the Artistic Director of the Boston Classical Guitar Society and co-curator of the Second Sunday Classical Guitar series in 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.

Frank's newest solo guitar CD JOY: songs and carols for a season of light is receiving rave reviews. Fanfare Magazine wrote in the Nov/Dec 2008 issue: …a beautiful collection of Christmas music from across the centuries, played, composed, and arranged by Frank Wallace…a true master of his instrument… ChristmasReviews.com wrote, “Frank Wallace and his JOY deserve a standing ovation. The classical guitar's gently expressive voice has never been more alive than in Wallace's capable hands. Bravo!”
--Carol Swanson

JOY and all of Frank's CDs are in rerelase thru the Musical Heritage Society. Read more.

American Record Guide calls Frank Wallace's compositions “exciting, unpredictable, and fresh”. Fanfare magazine has dubbed him a composer with “an authentic expressive voice” who writes with a “high standard of musical interest” and performs with “flawless technical proficiency”. New music reviewers have also honored Wallace's compositions: NewMusicBox.org calls it “contemporary musical emancipation”. Wallace's works showcase the classical guitar in solo, duo trio and quartet, as well as in chamber works with voice, flute and cello. His compositional style has many influences, from the blues and jazz to medieval and avant garde . His melodies are memorable, his harmonies and rhythms complex. Great passion and a sense of humor infuse his work.

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 75 songs set to classical guitar, 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, Henriette de Saussure Blanding, Deborah Dill, Guillevic, Shem Tov Ben Palquera, Rumi, and 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.

Wallace is a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory. In the early 1980's Wallace left his guitar teaching post at the New England Conservatory to dedicate himself to performing music of the 12 th -16 th centuries. For two decades he toured extensively on both sides of the Atlantic as a lutenist and singer with Trio LiveOak and LiveOak and Company. In recent years, with mezzo-soprano and poet Nancy Knowles, he has been performing contemporary song repertoire as Duo LiveOak.

In addition to the New England Conservatory, Wallace has taught at Plymouth State College, Emmanuel College, Keene State College and Franklin Pierce College. He lives in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire, where he teaches at the Two Rivers Music School and privately.  Frank Wallace's complete works as well as his recordings are available at www.gyremusic.com.  His compositions have also been 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.

Wallace's compositions have been twice honored by the New Hampshire Council on the Arts' 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)

Frank Wallace currently performs and records on modern guitars by Ignacio Fleta, Dake Traphagen, and Stephan Connor, an 1854 Manuel Gutierrez and lutes and vihuelas by Joel van Lennep and Hirotaka Watanabe,

Sample Program and Press Materials

Father Said: Songs and Solos by Frank Wallace

Photos:  both low and high res

Press Kit: sample press release, biography, reviews          [short and long], photo  [PDF-15 pages]

Short Press Release:  Word Document - 3 pages