Rist, Peter
his teenage years, drawn to the tradition of improvisation in blues and classic rock music. He has recorded seven CDs of blues-rock music as the Peter Rist Band.
He discovered the classical guitar in London in his twenties and developed a love of Renaissance and Baroque music and of the Vihuela, Lute and Theorbo. Largely self-taught, though for several years a student of the Franco-Greek guitarist Catherine Liolios, he now writes only for the classical guitar, and views his compositions as 21st-century descendants of the Renaissance and Baroque traditions.
