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Performance Schedule 2007

As a soloist he has toured extensively throughout the UK, Europe, the USA and Canada and has appeared many times at London’s Wigmore Hall, the South Bank Centre's Purcell Room, and Birmingham's Symphony Hall. Raymond has been featured on BBC Radio, and worked with many of England’s finest orchestras including the BBC Symphony, the Philharmonia, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic.

Raymond has premièred many new works by composers that include Stephen Dodgson, Bernard Stevens, Reginald Smith Brindle, John Duarte, Raymond Head, Edmundo Vasquez, Richard Stoker, James Patten, Gilbert Biberian, Dudley Moore, Bryan Kelly, Elis Pehkonen, Christopher Wright and John Scott.

For several years he performed and broadcast with harpsichordist Stephen Bell; many established composers were enthusiastic about the combination and wrote works for the duo, helping to create a more substantial repertory. He now performs with harpsichordist Richard Leigh Harris.

Between 1988-95 Raymond worked in a duo with American guitarist Alice Artzt and – based in New York City – he was also a member of the Alice Artzt Trio. He has also performed and recorded with mezzo-soprano Jackie Fox and worked in guitar duos with John Mills, Gilbert Biberian, Gregg Nestor and John Feeley; he is currently a member of the Rodrigo Guitar Trio. Shortly after its release, the trio’s fifth CD, Danzas Fantasticas, was Henry Kelly’s ‘CD of the week’ on Classic FM. This CD was released under the trio's former name, The New Pro Arte Guitar Trio.

Raymond has performed with violinist Michael Bochmann, the Bochmann String Quartet, flautist Jennifer Stinton and given mixed programmes of poetry and music with the late Dame Peggy Ashcroft. The most recent duo partnership is with the guitarist Gordon Giltrap in the duo Double Vision; the duo’s first album was issued in 2004 by Voiceprint.

He is also in great demand as a teacher and has given master-classes and directed guitar workshops, festivals and summer schools throughout the UK and in Dublin, Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Seattle, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Washington DC, New York, Princeton, Bremen, Bonn and Lima.

Raymond has many guitar arrangements to his credit; the publishers include Schott, MSM, Southern Guitar Productions, RGT Publications, Lathkill and Corda (UK), Arpeggione (Switzerland), Durand (France) and AIG (USA). He has also edited a large number of music albums for Schott.

Raymond is a regular contributor to the monthly magazine Classical Guitar. And to 'Acoustic' magazine.

Raymond plays guitars by Christopher Dean and Roger Williams.

In addition to his busy schedule, Raymond supports a number of charities including Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Open Churches Trust, and Amnesty International.

Performance Schedule 2008

September, 2008

October, 2008

11 - Saturday
Barnham, Suffolk 7.30pm

Raymond Burley
St Gregory's Church
18 - Saturday
LONDON 7.30pm

Rodrigo Guitar Trio
Enfield Guitar Society
27 - Monday
Weston, Herts

Raymond Burley recording Bach
Holy Trinity Church, Weston
28 - Tuesday
Weston, Herts

Raymond Burley recording Bach
Holy Trinity Church, Weston
29 - Wednesday
Weston, Herts

Raymond Burley recording Bach
Holy Trinity Church, Weston

November, 2008

8 - Saturday
Oxford 7.30pm£12.00

Double Vision
Holywell Music Room
21 - Friday
Devizes, Wiltshire

Guitar course
Urchfont Manor
22 - Saturday
Devizes, Wiltshire

Guitar course
Urchfont Manor
Devizes, Wiltshire8.00pm

English Guitar Duo
Urchfont Manor
23 - Sunday
Devizes, Wiltshire

Guitar course
Urchfont Manor
28 - Friday
Sleaford, Lincolnshire 7.30pm

Raymond Burley
The Hub, National Centre for Craft & Design
29 - Saturday
Bracknell, Berkshire 7.30pm

Raymond Burley and Debbie Haeck (guitar duo)
South Hill Park Arts Centre

December, 2008

6 - Saturday
Oxford 7.30pm

Isis Duo
Holywell Music Room
13 - Saturday
Tring, Hertfordshire 7.30pm

Isis Duo
Anglo Methodist Church