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No guitar collection is complete with a Rick Turner/Renaissance guitar. Premier Guitar magazine
has called Rick "The Father of Boutique Guitars". He has had a major influence on how guitars are
made.
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Julian Bream is one of the most famous classical guitarists of the twentieth century and he has
achieved worldwide fame not only for the guitar but also for his work with the Renaissance Lute.
He is considered to be one of the most important ambassadors of the classical guitar and has
formed a solid bridge between the music of the past with the technology of today. He helped
usher the classical guitar into the modern age.
He was born in 1933 and took up the classical guitar on his eleventh birthday when he received
one as a present. He was already an accomplished musician having studied piano and cello but
with the classical guitar and lute he excelled.
Significant Contributions
In 1960 he formed a group called the Julian Bream Consort. It was an Elizabethan period
ensemble for which Bream played the lute. This Consort brought about a revival in interest of the
Elizabethan era which is considered to be a period of time that was the absolute pinnacle of the
English Renaissance. His work with this group earned him a Grammy award for best chamber
music performance. This award would be the first of many awards which include three more
Grammy awards.
One of the most important contributions he made to the world of the classical guitar was his
development of a complete repertoire for performance. His transcriptions of works for guitar and
lute span five centuries and he has particularly focused on lute works from the Elizabethan era
and Spanish guitar works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has also had many
composers create works specifically for him.
Ambassador to the media of the Twentieth Century
Bream has embraced television and radio and used these media to bring classical guitar and lute
to a mass audience. His 2003 DVD video profile Julian Bream: My Life in Music, which is a three
hour long piece, includes interviews and performances and is considered to be one of the finest
contributions ever made to the world of Classical Guitar. He has also created a British television
series entitled Guitarra! It charts a musical journey across Spain.
Learn More about Him
If you are looking to read more about him there is a newly published book called The Art of Julian
Bream. If you are looking to experience some of his music you might want to start with his

2. collaborative work with John Williams. They are a two volume set entitled Together and Together
Again. If you want a more encompassing view of his music as it spans the decades he has a two
volume CD set called The Ultimate Guitar Collection. The first CD is a compilation of many of his
transcriptions and the second CD focuses on his works for Spanish guitar.
Julian Bream is one of the greatest classical of the modern day. His tireless performance and
work with the guitar has spanned many decades of personal performance and many centuries of
music. He has bridged the gap between the past and the future by giving us an enormous
repertoire of music in just about every modern mode of media from CD to television and film. And
it is his particular gift for transcription and interpretation that has enabled him to bring five
centuries of plucked instrument music into the modern world.
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No guitar collection is complete with a Rick Turner/Renaissance guitar. Premier Guitar magazine
has called Rick "The Father of Boutique Guitars". He has had a major influence on how guitars are
made.
www.nocalguitars.com
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