Graham Pringle
Graham Pringle has been a part-time lecturer in Classical Guitar since 2001, and Music Skills since 2005, at the Conservatoire of Music. Working mostly with students enrolled in the music certificate course, his keen interest in all aspects of contemporary guitar playing, allows him to communicate meaningfully with those students whose musical background is not necessarily classical. A desire to explore all the sonic possibilities of the guitar has led him to incorporate a number of unorthodox techniques into his playing, and to study the philosophy which underpins these possibilities. He has a particular interest in contemporary compositions. A graduate of UCT (BMus) he has studied under Dietrich Wagner, Fritz Buss, Uliano Marchio and Elspeth Jack. He has taken part in master classes by Carlos Bonell and Ernesto Bitetti. Performances include participation in concerts for the Johannesburg Classical Guitar Society, Cape Town Classical Guitar Society, Contemporary Music Society and the Prize Winners Concert of the Youth in Harmony Guitar Festival (where he performed his prize-winning composition Manet in London). He is a past chairman of the Cape Town Classical Guitar Society.
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