Alan Rinehart has made many contributions to the guitar world as a performer, teacher, and music editor. Completing studies at Western Michigan University and a Professional Music Training Diploma from Vancouver Community College, he studied lute repertoire and technique in London, England at the Early Music Centre with Anthony Rooley, Jakob Lindberg, and Emma Kirkby. His study of historical performance practices led to the ability to play the lute with a softer 'no nail' sound and the guitar with standard concert guitar technique.

In 1980 he gave a critically acclaimed London debut which was described by GUITAR INTERNATIONAL magazine as:  "consistently clean and musical...he has a pleasantly relaxed stage manner which won over the audience right from the word go".  In addition to many concert recitals, he has performed at international guitar festivals in Toronto and Quebec and on CBC radio and TV.

Alan Rinehart is a co-founder of The Vancouver Guitar Quartet which became a regular part of the Vancouver and Western Canadian music scene in the late 1980's with many concert and radio appearances including a broadcast concert on CBC's ARTS NATIONAL, and enthusiastically acclaimed performances as featured artists in the host pavilion at EXPO 86. After an hiatus of a number of years the Quartet reformed in 1996 and has recently released its debut recording "Estampas".

Alan Rinehart has prepared the first guitar performance edition of the Moscow lute manuscript of Sylvius Leopold Weiss for Editions Orphee (see LINKS) and a two volume edition of the works of the Romantic Spanish composer Antonio Gimenez Manjón for Chanterelle Verlag (see LINKS).

He has been a faculty member of the music schools at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Community College since 1983.

For more information please e-mail a reply to:  alanrinehart@hotmail.com