I will be back teaching my guitar students at Western Australian Academy of the Performing Arts in person. What a privilege. However, I have decided continue offering online lessons outside the conservatoire. Thanks to the pandemic my online set-up has improved in order to give students a good experience. So if you were thinking about having […]
While I regularly engage with news and debates from around the globe making my opinions, I don’t consider myself very good at writing about them. I feel more comfortable discussing and debating politics in more intimate settings. Having said that, the disturbing surge in right-wing movements and their political figures that we have experienced on […]
Live concerts, remember those? Well I do, but man, it’s been a while. I don’t like to dwell too much on pasts events and concerts are ephemeral. They come and go. The moment we are in them is what matters, we hopefully cherish being part of that moment, whether listener or performer. However, in this […]
It is almost already becoming old news that musicians and artists have tackled the pandemic by embracing making online live concerts and edited videos performances. I have seen some of my colleagues really getting creative and doing great stuff. Like many I have also taken the opportunity to upgrade my home recording setup. I have […]
In late January, when I flew back to Australia from Basel Airport via London Heathrow and Singapore, it was like an omen of the future to come. All over the international airports many travellers were already wearing face masks, particularly in Singapore where the risk of the SARS-II COVID 19 was more present than in […]
