Graham Wade, one of the world's leading authorities on the art of Segovia, looks back during this seminar to the legacy of music and inspiration achieved by an artist of extraordinary international renown whose concert career extended from 1910 to 1987. Segovia's death in 1987, twenty-five years ago, occasioned much detailed scholarship in subsequent decades on his life and work. Graham Wade will evaluate the true lasting effects of Segovia's career on the present guitar scene and talk about his friendship with the Maestro.

GRAHAM WADE: A graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge, and Fellow of Trinity College of Music, London, Graham was formerly Head of Strings and professor of guitar at the City of Leeds College of Music and Tutor in Guitar to the Universities of Leeds and York. His publications include biographies of Andres Segovia, Joaquin Rodrigo and Gina Bachauer, books on guitar history, and aspects of musical form. An Advisory Editor and contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and to The New Grove Dictionary of American Music and Musicians, he has been appointed as General Editor for a series of paperbacks on music for a leading American publisher. He has been an external examiner in guitar at the Royal Welsh College of Music, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, the Dublin Conservatoire, and the Leeds College of Music, and has been an adjudicator for several international guitar competitions and music festivals in Germany, Ireland, Greece, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

Graham Wade has written programme notes for Andres Segovia, Julian Bream, and John Williams, etc., and liner notes for various leading record companies including Naxos, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, ASV, Nimbus, Teldec, Chandos, Aurophon, etc.  Between 1990 and 1995 he was founder-editor of the European Guitar Teachers’ Association Journal (EGTA UK). He is internationally acknowledged as one of the foremost writers on the classical guitar.  
From the 1960s onwards he fulfilled many performing engagements throughout England, as well as playing recitals in Spain, Scandinavia, Holland, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Canada, etc.

In 2002, Graham Wade was awarded the Schott Gold Medal for his contribution to Rodrigo studies. In 1986 he gave lectures on the Segovia course at the University of Southern California, and in 1994 was Guest Speaker at Cordoba Guitar Festival on the art of Andrés Segovia. In 1998 he spent some time at Brigham Young University, Utah, to research his biography of the pianist, Gina Bachauer. He has given seminars at universities and colleges world-wide including USA, Canada, Austria, Germany, Spain, Greece, Hungary, Holland, New Zealand, and the Czech Republic, as well as the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Scottish Academy of Music, Royal Welsh College of Music, Royal Northern College of Music, Trinity College of Music, London, the London School of Economics, the Institute Cervantes, Leeds University, and many British classical guitar societies, etc.

He has tutored and lectured at many international festivals and summer schools including Seville, Spain, Koblenz, Germany, Esztergom, Hungary, Ingesund, Sweden, Zwolle, Holland, Mikulov, Czech Republic, Cordoba Guitar Festival, Spain, Complutense University Summer School, Madrid, University of Southern California, Winona, Minnesota, Corfu Guitar Festival, Greece, Derry Guitar Festival, etc., and most British summer schools including Cannington, West Dean, EGTA conference, Burton Manor, Brant Broughton Summer School, Bath Festival, etc. His further travels and researches have taken him to Russia, China, Mongolia, India, Australia, North and West Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, South America and the Falkland Islands.

Publications by Graham Wade:
The Art of Andrés Segovia (in preparation, Ashley Mark Publishing Company, 2012)
Traditions of the Classical Guitar (All World Classics, re-print from 1980 edition, 2012)
Profile of Federico Mompou (Naxos e reader, 2011)
Profile of Joaquín Turina (Naxos e reader, 2011)
Profile of Manuel de Falla (Naxos e reader, 2011)
The Fibonacci Confessions (GRM Publications, 2010)
Nombres Propios de la Guitarra: Julian Bream (Córdoba Lecture, IMAE Gran Teatro & Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, 2009)
The Art of Julian Bream (Ashley Mark, 2008)
Portrait of Rodrigo, His Life, His Music (Naxos, 2008, with 86 page booklet by Graham Wade)
Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909) (Stanley Yates & Graham Wade, Mel Bay, DVD, 2008)
Joaquín Rodrigo - A Life in Music (GRM Publications, 2006)
A Concise Guide to Understanding Music (Mel Bay, 2003)
Classical Guitar - A Complete History (ed. John Morrish, thirteen essays by Graham Wade, Balafon, 2002)
Distant Sarabandes - The Solo Guitar Music of Joaquín Rodrigo (GRM Publications, 2nd Edition 2001)
A Concise History of the Classic Guitar (Mel Bay, 2001)
Mother and Other Poems (GRM Publications, 2001)
Frog and Other Poems (GRM Publications, 2001)
War Baby and Other Poems (GRM Publications, 2000)
Gina Bachauer - A Pianist’s Odyssey (GRM Publications, 1999)
Guitar Teaching and Learning - Interpretation and Style (University of Reading, 1998)
John Mills, Concert Guitarist - A Celebration (GRM Publications, 1997)
The Guitarist’s Guide to Associated Board Examinations (Graham Wade and Brian Jeffery, GRM Publications & Tecla Editions, 1997)
Distant Sarabandes - The Solo Guitar Music of Joaquín Rodrigo (GRM Publications, 1997)
A New Look at Segovia, His Life, His Music, Vols 1 & 2 (with Gerard Garno, Mel Bay, 1996)
Maestro Segovia (Robson, 1986)
The Guitarist’s Guide to J.S. Bach (Wise Owl Music, 1985),
Joaquín Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez (Mayflower Press, 1985)
Segovia - a Celebration of his Life and Music (Allison & Busby, 1983)
The Shape of Music (Allison & Busby, 1983)
Your Book of the Guitar (Faber 1980)
Traditions of the Classical Guitar (Calder, 1980)
Graham Wade/ICS Guitar Course, Vols I & II (International Correspondence Schools, 1972 & 1975)
Editions:
Heitor Villa-Lobos and the Guitar, Turibio Santos (Translated and edited by Victoria Forde & Graham Wade, Wise Owl, 1985)
Edited by Elizabeth and Graham Wade, Mel Bay Paperback Series
A Concise History of the Electric Guitar, Adrian Ingram (Mel Bay, 2001)
A Concise Guide to Musical Terms, John Robert Brown (Mel Bay, 2002)
A Concise History of Jazz, John Robert Brown (Mel Bay, 2004)
A Concise History of Rock, Paul Fowles (Mel Bay, 2009)
A Concise History of 20th Century Music, Graham Hearn (2010)