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Frank Wallace is the Artistic Director of the Boston Classical Guitar Society.
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Please click here to see Frank Wallace's Calendar of Events. 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 Wallace's new solo guitar CD of Chrismas Music of the last eight centuries is receiving rave reviews. ChristmasReviews.com recently 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
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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
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