Stephen Yates is one of Britain's few composer/guitarists. Originally an award winning classical guitarist performing standard repertoire, his experience of arranging and composing for ensembles combined with his love for a wide variety of music from around the world inevitably led him to apply himself to music for solo guitar. His music is as eclectic as can be imagined, incorporating classical European as well as Asian, African, Irish and popular influences, but rather than pastiche, he combines these elements at their core to produce a style all his own. Virtuosic and yet lyrical, his music can be seen as belonging both to the classical world as well as to the contemporary.
Programme
Barefoot Sundance
Io Pan
Summers Spent
The Great Good bye
Trajectory X
Interval
Meditation on Solitude
Dance of the Mayfly
Mr Hyde's Hop
March For a Free Man
I am Pi
