Patrice Shopard

Swiss classical guitarist and composer, born in Zurich 1953. Graduated as a guitar teacher from the 'Musikhochschule Zürich' (Zurich School of Music) after studying under Spiros Thomatos. He later studied composition under Hans Ulrich Lehmann in Zurich and Ib Nørholm in Copenhagen, and musicology and Scandinavian language and culture sciences at the University of Hamburg. Works as guitar teacher, composer, cultural educationalist, culture manager, music journalist, musicologist and translator.