19-23 March
We’re playing guitar and bass in the TAS production of Les Miserables over the next few days. The school students are doing a great show, so I don’t think we’ll be particularly miserable.
Live on air
Oscar Foong at Fine Music 102.5 FM will be playing our GuitArmidale CD today just after 4 pm. You can listen live athttp://www.finemusicfm.com/
Postcards of Dreadlock
Postcards of Dreadlock by Marc Mellits, arrangement by Steve Thorneycroft
With Margaret Butcher (violin) and Eleanor Streatfeild (cello) at the recent Glass@75 concert.
Ensemble 603 concert
Ever thought recorder, violin, saxophone and guitar were a great sounding combination? Well, Alana Blackburn (recorders), Margaret Butcher (violin/viola), Woody Woodhouse (saxophones), Stephen Tafra (guitar) and Steve Thorneycroft (guitars) have put together a program in which you can hear this combination, in duos, trios and quartet.
We will play contemporary music in a wide variety of styles. Composers include Greg Fishman, Bill Frisell, Ryohei Hirose, Phillip Houghton, Marc Mellits and Benjamin Thorn.
Thursday 13th September, 7.30pm.
F03, Old Teachers’ College.
Entry by donation.
EphenStephen and the Psycho Alien Killer Guitars
A great little comic by our friend Graeme Compton.
And here it is again set to music by Steve. “Aliens made me do it”.
Glass @ 75 concert
Plucking marvellous
Had a great rehearsal last night. The attitude “let’s try this one with that one” soon filled the kitchen with all things plucked. Bit of a guitar hangover this morning though.
EphenStephen, cartoon version
Part of an EphenStephen cartoon series by Graeme Compton, stay tuned, pics and music on their way.
Welcome to the new EphenStephen pages, very new in fact and currently being updated. Unlike our previous site, this one will be dynamic, we will be giving you audio, video and sheet music, sharing ideas and hopefully hearing from you as well. Feel free to connect with us on Facebook or Twitter.
For now, some basic info to get started. We are the classical guitar duo of Steve Thorneycroft and Stephen Tafra, hailing from Australia and the small town of Armidale in the New England region of NSW. We are committed to exploring both inventive and established repertoire and boast a diverse history of projects ranging from new music commissions to ground breaking transcriptions of classic works. Here is an example, the Aria from Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
We have two CDs available, GuitArmidale and our own arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. More info here.
EphenStephen Guitar Duo 