Tyler Hawkins in Norman Wells
January 31 @ 7:30 pm
Yellowknife’s own Tyler Hawkins, recognized for his versatile guitarist work, levels up with this rare performance on his Baroque Lute featuring the music of Weiss, Bach and Gauthier. He received a BFA Honours in Performance on multi-string classical guitars (1990) and later released both online and CD versions of Tyler Hawkins – Bach on Seventeen Strings (2007) and Georg Philipp Telemann Lute Duets for Classical Guitar – Tyler Hawkins & Christopher Irvine (2009).
As director of the NWT International Lute Festival (2007 – 2017) he became immersed into the fascinating and very real world of early music, having commissioned a period accurate replica 13 course Sebastian Schelle baroque lute, hand made by the luthier duo Barber & Harris in London England, 2011. For this life-long guitarist the migration to lute has been an ultimate game changer giving way to an exciting new trajectory.
