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Born
in 1950 in Adelaide, Australia, Richard Miles Jackman, spent the
first years of his life in England. In 1962 his family returned
to Australia where he began playing guitar at the age of 13. Soon
thereafter that he was accepted as a student with Sadie Bishop who
headed the classical guitar program at the Melbourne Conservatoire.
From
1969 to 1973 he studied mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University
in the United States. There he took the opportunity attend the basic
courses in harmony and counterpoint required of students majoring
in music. In October of 1970 the PSU Music Department sponsored
his first public classical guitar solo recital in which, in addition
to pieces from the standard classical guitar repertoire, he performed
a suite of his own compositions entitled 'Six Songs'.
After
attaining his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics, Richard
Miles Jackman moved to Europe. He attended the classical guitar
master classes of Andrés Segovia and Rómulo Lazarde
before finally settling in West Germany. From 1974 to 1979 he was
a student at the Würzburger Musikhochschule. His teachers were
Dieter Kirsch for classical guitar and Berthold Hummel for composition.
In
addition to his concerts in Europe and the United States, Richard
Miles Jackman has made various LP, CD and radio recordings. He is
presently a classical guitar instructor at the University of Würzburg.
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