Andrew Forrest has performed and taught the guitar throughout England since the early 1960's and has given numerous recitals. In 1975, he moved to North Yorkshire and has been teaching in schools, working with both individuals and ensembles varying in size from two to forty guitars. Since there was a shortage of suitable material available for his guitar groups, he developed his arranging and compositional skills to produce many, solos, duets, trios and larger ensemble pieces.
He has been a peripatetic guitar teacher for North Yorkshire County Music
Service for the last 30 years, proving to be a successful teacher as
well as guitar ensemble director. His Schools Guitar Ensemble has won
National Guitar Competitions twice - each time that they have entered.
A work for Guitar Orchestra also won a prize at the Dewsbury National
Guitar Competition for best composition/arrangement. He has four times
been the Guitar Examiner at Harrogate Competitive Music Festival in
recent years, adjudicating both solo and ensemble performances.
He is a member of York Guitar Quartet which has been performing many of
his quartet arrangements in the North of England since 1980. Several of these
arrangements have been recorded on CD by the York Guitar Quartet and also other
ensembles throughout the world (eg Guitarstrophe).
The latest CD is mainly original work by members of the quartet and
can be viewed and samples listened to here...
Andrew Forrest is available for workshops and can be contacted at the
above addresses and phone number.
