Simon wynberg biography

Simon Wynberg enjoys a diverse career as a guitarist, chamber musician, artistic director, accompanist, producer and arranger. Wynberg is not only a virtuoso performer of distinction but one of the guitar’s foremost scholars, researching many areas of the instrument's neglected repertory, much of which he has recorded.

Simon Wynberg established the Scottish chamber festival Music in Blair Atholl, Scotland, in 1991 and was Artistic Director of Music at Speedside and the Guelph Spring Festival, and in the Caribbean from 1994 to 2002. He was appointed Artistic Director of Artists of The Royal Conservatory (The Royal Conservatory of Music’s ensemble-in-residence.) in 2002. Recent engagements include concerts at the Bermuda International Festival, Banff, New York's Bargemusic series; the Marseillan Festival in France; Sitka Festival in Alaska as well as concerts throughout the UK, North America and the Caribbean.

His entry in the New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians

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Simon Wynberg

Artistic Director, ARC Ensemble

Simon Wynberg enjoys a diverse career as a guitarist, chamber musician and artistic director. He has programmed chamber-music festivals in Scotland and the Caribbean and was artistic director of Music at Speedside and the Guelph Spring Festival in Canada from 1994 to 2002. His entry in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes him as “not only a virtuoso performer of distinction but one of the guitar’s foremost scholars.” He has edited over 60 volumes of hitherto unknown guitar music and his many recordings (on Chandos, ASV, Hyperion, Narada, Stradivari, Vox and Naxos) have received glowing reviews and awards, including a Penguin CD Guide Rosette; a Gramophone Critics’ Choice, and a Diapason Award. He has performed at the Newport, Bermuda, Sitka, Ann Arbor, Santa Fé and Ottawa chamber music festivals, at New York’s Bargemusic and throughout Europe, and collaborated with many celebrated artists; inc

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VC INTERVIEW | Simon Wynberg - ARC Ensemble's Artistic Director

The Violin Channel recently caught up with Simon Wynberg, Artistic Director of the Toronto-based ARC Ensemble

The ARC Ensemble, in celebration of their new album 'Chamber Works by Walter Kaufmann', will perform live from The Royal Conservatory on the The Violin Channel's facebook on Wednesday 2nd September at 3pm (EDT).

 

Tell us about the Ensemble’s acclaimed “Music in Exile” series for which you’ve been nominated three times for Grammys.

"The ensemble has very broad musical tastes and it's a very curious and imaginative group of musicians, so from its inception inom thought it would be a good idea to explore unfamiliar repertoire. Personally I think there are diminishing returns in re-recording canonical works, wonderful as they are. It’s a paradox that in many ways we know less about 20th century than we do about the 19th and 18th and for me there is a moral obligation associated with the exp