One of the most celebrated guitarists of the classical repertoire, and one of
the few to win gold discs and awards, John Williams was born in Melbourne in
1941 and grew up in England. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, where he
taught for two years, he has been touring the world's stages since 1958, making
numerous recordings alone or in collaboration with Jacqueline du Pré, Cleo
Laine, Itzhak Perlman, Paco Pena, John Etheridge or Bryn Terfel. He made two
albums with Julian Bream(Together in 1972, which won a Grammy Award, and
Together Again in 1974) and played in the prog...