I learned the guitar in my teens, but study and work took over. My guitar stayed with me - I never accepted that I'd given up completely. A recent chance meeting with a musician made me realise how much I missed the guitar.

WiGS led to me lessons with Brad Johnson and two personal firsts: performing in front of an audience, and as the first to play a left hand-only piece at WiGS (thanks to a broken right wrist and lots of help from Brad on technique!).

I'm now working on my Trinity Grade 3 (with both hands) and look forward to playing at many more WiGS sessions.

As a 10 year old in India, I was fascinated by learning Bollywood tunes on my brother's Hawaiian guitar, giving me an ear for melody which later attracted me to classical arpeggios.

Aged 50, I studied for a year with Mohie Elsayed, sharing a love for mathematics, and learning Sor's and Mohie's own studies before my work again took over. I restarted at 60, under Marco Punzi, a free-flowing Italian player who keeps me focused on the grade curriculum, without the formality of it.

WiGS is great for testing myself, performing amongst players of a range of competencies, with invaluable peer and expert guidance - a lovely community bound by a love for the guitar.

I’m a classical guitarist from Germany. Growing up in a musical family I played all sorts of different instruments but eventually settled on the guitar which then became my profession.

Currently I’m doing a PhD at Guildhall School of Music and Drama where I investigate Improvisation on the Guitar in the early nineteenth century in theory and also in my personal practice.

I enjoy the vibrant energy at WiGS and the community of so many different people who are all passionate about the classical guitar.