Giddy after having my first jazz guitar lesson with the amazing musician/human Rale Micic. Gotta “open up my ears” and “build a vocabulary.” Baby steps. #neverstoplearning #jazz #buyhisalbum

Duo Noire had a blast @ Juilliard for our dear friend Raymond Lustig’s composition class. We performed some of Ray’s “Figments” from our album of his music and talked about composing for the guitar with an absolutely wonderful group of adult students. Good times! 

What a glorious day to walk Manhattan with the organ works of Bach as a soundtrack. #photography #nyc #snow #nature

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I have made this mistake many times. I have played things that are not playable. You know, trying to prove that I could play more notes than other guitarists could. And then, at one point, you realize that “really, is that so important for me to show?” As you get older, at least for me, it’s much more about the beauty.

At the very beginning, it was the sound of the guitar. Then at one point, you realize that it’s more than the sound, that there’s music that’s even more interesting… But then you realize at one point that there is another level, it can become art.

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— Guitar Coop Interview with Manuel Barrueco Pt.3. (Youtube)

Here's a little compose-a-gram from my "practice" this evening. Anyone else awake? #nightmusic #theorbo #insomnia #lute #classicalguitar #nocturnal #music #composagram

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Here’s a little compose-a-gram from my “practice” this evening. Anyone else awake? #nightmusic #theorbo #insomnia #lute #classicalguitar #nocturnal #music (at New York, New York)

So happy to have finished arranging and rewriting my piece Beyond Ferguson for an extraordinary guitar trio. It’s based entirely on a melody from Michael Brown’s rap music and a reading of Du Bois. The quartet, trio and duo versions are now on my website for free download. #classicalguitar #newmusic #guitartrio #chambermusic #ferguson #michaelbrown

Watching Eric Garner’s daughter speak at The Dream Unfinished benefit concert commemorating the anniversary of his death by NYPD chokehold. #ericgarner #blacklivesmatter #symphony #dreamunfinished (at Centennial Memorial Temple)

Standing ovations for the first night of H. Lawrence Freeman’s revived opera “Voodoo” at Columbia’s Miller Theater. Congratulations to everyone who worked so incredibly hard to put this together. Honored I get to play banjo in this one more time. #voodoo #opera #banjo #harlem (at Miller Theatre at Columbia University)

And now for something completely different. This is my life for the next two weeks: Banjoist. What a month! #banjo #goldtone #resonator #opera

On this week one year ago Duo Noire and composer Ray Lustig released our debut album, Figments. It seems fitting that at the one year anniversary we have all come together to take this music half way around the world for its China premiere. Let the adventure begin! http://youtu.be/G2tAGx0A5gM?t=92s (at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac))