Sound and Music

Nick Chamberlain is a composer, guitarist, teacher and ensemble director. He studied composition to Post Graduate level at Birmingham Conservatoire and has since written for various instrumental combinations and solo instruments, especially the guitar. His Songs and Dances for solo guitar achieved excellent reviews in Music Teacher Magazine (6/03) and Classical Guitar Magazine (2/04). Since 1999 he has been writing and publishing a range of tuition material for his Creative Guitar Studio – www.creativeguitarstudio.co.uk . This includes tutor books and student pieces, many of which are being used as standard teaching repertoire in several education authorities around the country. He directs the Birmingham Schools’ Guitar Ensemble and set up the Plucked String Orchestra with a Standards Fund grant in 2004. The PSO is an outlet for his ‘world music fusion’ composition and the performance of his piece A World’s Reflection, a semi-improvised work, was awarded a top prize at the 2005 National Music For Youth Festival. His compositional style ranges from tonal jazz idiom Take Refugue a fugue for fl. cl. bcl. ssax. db to experimental Mass Production for 4 spoken voices and prepared tape to Origins for fourteen instruments which draws inspiration from 'world', folk, song and dance music. Nick Chamberlain is an spnm shortlisted composer.