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TREFOR OWEN INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED JAZZ GUITARIST AND EDUCATOR
Trefor Owen was born in the village of Gwalchmai, Anglesey. (Anglesey is an island off the Northern tip of Wales). Trefor, who is a Welsh speaker, is one of Britain's finest jazz guitarists and a familiar figure on the U.S. Jazz guitar scene. His latest CD Wales Plays Brazil has won widespread critical acclaim and was featured regularly on Jazz FM's Dinner Jazz, before the station became Smooth FM.
Trefor has toured the U.K. extensively and performed in the U.S.A with many American musicians, and has appeared with many European and British musicians. He has made several appearances at the New York Guitar Show, Long Island and at the NAMM Show, Los Angeles. In July 1998 Trefor was invited to the Chet Atkins Convention in Nashville, where he performed a guitar duo with Jim Nichols in the main auditorium, and conducted a workshop. This event was followed by a return visit to California where he played with two of Los Angeles' foremost guitarists, Ron Eschete and John Pisano. On the same tour Trefor made appearances in San Francisco at Enrico's, and at the famous Pearl's Jazz Club with guitarist Bruce Forman. He also performed at the Acoustic Guitar Show in San Rafael. In 2006, for the third consecutive year, he toured California appearing in San Francisco and at John Pisano’s Guitar Night at Spazios, Sherman Oaks, L. A. During the tour, Trefor has performed clinics for JazzMasters Workshops at Carmel, the first non American guitarist to do so.
For nine years, Trefor has led a team of international guitarists tutoring and performing at the North Wales International Jazz Guitar Festival and Summer School in Wrexham.
Trefor Owen is one of the foremost Jazz and improvisation teachers in the U.K., covering all instruments. He has over twenty years' experience teaching at the highest level both in Britain and the USA. For eight of those years he was an Associate Lecturer at Leeds College of Music. Also, for the last seventeen years he has been a visiting lecturer at Liverpool Community College, and for the last five years has taught at Wigan and Leigh College.
Trefor Owen has considerable experience in tutoring clinics and workshops. Among the many he has conducted are celebrity workshops at Cork International Jazz Festival, London's Guitar Institute, the Zinc Bar, New York, New York Guitar Show, Long Island and, as mentioned above, the Chet Atkins Convention in Nashville.
TREFOR OWEN has jammed, appeared or toured with the following American guitarists: Jim Hall, Mundell Lowe, Johnny Smith, George Benson, John Pisano, Al Viola, Gene Bertoncini, Sal Salvador, Bucky Pizzarelli, Howard Alden, Jimmy Bruno, Jack Wilkins, Steve Herberman, Vic Juris, Ken Hatfield, Paul Bollenback, Randy Johnson, Corey Christiansen, Ned Boynton, Frank DiBussolo, Rick Stone, Jimmy Gourley, Peter Leitch, Ron Jackson, Ron Eschete, Jim Nichols, Anthony Wilson, Sid Jacobs, Bruce Forman, Bobby Broom, Cheryl Bailey, Tony DeCaprio, Ron Anthony plus others. Other American instrumentalists: Harry Allen, Ali Ryerson, Bill Perkins, Warren Vache, Spike Robinson, George Masso, Jake Hanna, Chuck Berghofer, Kendall Kay, Luther Hughes, The Seleno Clarke Quintet in Harlem, NY.
European Jazz Guitarists: - Bireli Lagrene, Louis Stewart, Martin Taylor, Ike Isaacs, John Etheridge, Jim Mullen, Roy Sainsbury, Ulrich Hoffmeier, Tony Marshall, Gary Potter, Ulf Wakenius, Andreas Oberg and Thomas Brendgens-Mönkemeyer. Other European instrumentalists:
For twelve years Trefor has been a Mapson Guitars (USA) endorser. Also endorses Sonntag Guitars, Thomastik-Infeld Strings, Evans Amps and Redstone Audio Speaker Cabinets.
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Trefor Owen is available for concerts, workshops, group tuition and individual tuition.
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