My Myspace Site www.myspace.com/michaelmurrayguitar Websites of Other Guitarists My friend and colleague Andrew Mah (Ottawa): www.AndrewMah.com Francois Fowler and I studied at the University of Ottawa at the same time. He went to study with Bruce Holzman afterwards and is now an Associate Professor at the Dana School of Music of the Youngstown State University in Ohio: http://www.francoisfowler.com Nangialai Nashir and I studied with Thomas Muller-Pering in Weimar at the same time. He now teaches at the Institut für Musik of the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany: http://www.nashir.info/seiten/home_engl.html Guitar Forums/Blogs The most active classical guitar forum with forums in several languages as well as links to many useful resources: Delcamp Classical Guitar Forum Classical guitar lessons, tips, tricks and interviews: Classical Guitar Blog Guitar Summer Camps Domaine Forget: An excellent guitar seminar for classical guitarists in eastern Quebec: Domaine Forget The Guitar Summit: A jazz and blues guitar camp where I have taught in the past: The Guitar Summit Music Services Professional recording service specializing in mobile recording for classical, jazz and rock music. One of the partners is Andrew Brittain, a former student of mine: www.MudsharkAudio.com VanOrange, an independant record label affiliated with Mudshark Audio: http://www.vanorange.ca Reputable Music Stores Archambault Music (The main store in Montreal is the Berri store which has instruments on the 3rd floor. Some of the smaller Archambault stores do not sell instruments.): Archambault Italmelodie (Montreal, Laval): www.italmelodie.com Lauzon Music (Ottawa): www.lauzonmusic.com Long & McQuade (Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and many other locations in Canada): www.long-mcquade.com Nantel Music (Montreal): http://www.nantelmusique.ca Steve's Music (Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto): http://www.stevesmusic.com High End Instrument Dealers Grand Salon de Guitare (Montreal): http://www.salondeguitare.com The Guitar Salon (New York): http://www.theguitarsalon.com The Thirteenth Fret (Toronto): http://www.13thfret.com Zavaleta's Guitars (Arizona): http://www.zavaletas-guitarras.com Sheet Music, Guitar Accessories and Strings GSP Guitar Solo (San Francisco) The best source for hard to find sheet music as well as selling accessories and both regular and high end guitars: http://www.gspguitar.com Strings By Mail (Traverse City, Michigan) Sells strings and guitar accessories. For Canadian customers one of the few US stores that will ship by US Postal Service thus avoiding the exorbitant customs brokerage fees charged by courier services: http://www.stringsbymail.com Free Sheet Music The following Scandinavian libraries have extensive collections of early editions of guitar music that are no longer under copyright and which can be downloaded in .pdf format. The Danish Royal Library does not provide a catalogue for its collection so the link is to the Delcamp Classical Guitar Forum where the collection has been organized and catalogued with a link provided to download each piece. The Swedish Music Library does provide a catalogue organized alphabetically (the page is in Swedish but click on the alphabet menu). Danish Royal Library: http://www.classicalguitardelcamp.com/viewtopic.php?t=1788 The Swedish Music Library: Boijes Collection of the Swedish Music Library
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