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Bryan Townsend: Born in Alberta, Canada, grew up on Vancouver Island, lived a decade in Montreal, resident in Mexico since 1998. Degrees in music from McGill University in performance, post-graduate study in musicology. Catalogue includes a cycle of twelve songs, two suites for solo guitar, chamber music for violin, viola and guitar, two guitars and harpsichord and other combinations including three pieces for guitar orchestra published by Guitarissimo of Stockholm, Sweden. Publications include two books of pedagogy for guitar, one on technique and the other on playing Bach, which included eight new transcriptions for guitar. Four Pieces for Violin and Guitar were published by The Avondale Press in Vancouver. In April 2015 a new piece for violin and piano, "Chase" was premiered in a concert at Belles Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Gto. Mexico. In the 2021/2022 season there will be two premieres: the String Quartet 2 in Vancouver and an untitled piano piece in the Pro Musica series in San Miguel de Allende, Gto. Mexico.