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Ralph Maier has been engaging Canadian audiences for over twenty years with his sensitive interpretations and natural technical facility. His concert programs cover a broad range of periods from Renaissance to Contemporary, and he is active as a chamber musician as well as a soloist. He is currently on faculty at the Mount Royal College Conservatory of Music where he conducts private lessons and ensemble classes, and at the University of Calgary where he heads the classical guitar studio and teaches classes in popular music studies. Ralph Maier concertizes frequently, and is in demand as a soloist, accompanist and chamber musician on guitar and vihuela. He has performed in Canada and abroad, and his performances have been broadcast on television and radio. Recent projects include the world premiere of William Jordan's City of Peace and the first recording of Jordan's Variations and Cadenzas. Ralph is presently enrolled in the doctoral program at the University of Calgary and is researching sixteenth-century Spanish music for vihuela. His first vihuela CD, The Art of Vihuela, was released in January 2009. |