The Guitar Program

The Dalhousie Guitar Program is a four-year program with a core curriculum for the first two years and a selected concentration for the final two. The concentrations available are:

Classical guitar - This concentration focuses on mastering the more advanced pieces in the repertoire as well as on-going technical development. Performance majors will begin work on a major guitar concerto

*NEW* Flamenco Guitar - Mastering the techniques and styles of traditional and nuevo flamenco.

Guitar for the working musician  (Modern Music) - This concentration focuses on preparing guitarists for a free-lance career in the non-classical world and will involve being acquainted with a range of guitar styles from jazz to popular to blues as well as a thorough grounding in classical fingerstyle technique.