American Record Guide calls Frank Wallace’s compositions “exciting, unpredictable, and fresh”. Fanfare has dubbed him a composer with “an authentic expressive voice” and a “high standard of musical interest” who performs with “flawless technical proficiency”.  Frank Oteri of NewMusicBox.org calls it “contemporary musical emancipation”.  Wallace’s style has influences from Medieval and Renaissance music to blues, jazz and a-tonal modernism. Wallace’s works showcase the classical guitar in solo, duo, ensemble works from 3-6 guitars, and in chamber works with voice, flute, violin, cello, English horn, mandolin, and piano. Wallace has written for ChromaDuo, Mare Duo and Jugend Zupf Orchestra of Germany, Edel Muñoz, Marek Pasiezcny, Olson / De Cari Duo, New American Mandolin Ensemble and others. The compelling melodies and rich accompaniments in his 100+ songs fluidly combine the disparate influences of his mentors from Dowland to Schubert to Britten.
 
Frank Wallace was recently commissioned by the Hartt School of Music to write six ensemble pieces for the Guitar Department’s 50th Anniversary. He is a recent prize-winner in the José Fernández Rojas 2013 International Composition Competition, Logroño, Spain, and a two-time winner of the NH Individual Fellowship Award (2001 and 2006). Wallace’s complete works and recordings are available at www.gyremusic.com, a site rich with information and samples of sheet music and audio.Frank Wallace founded and directed for four years the Boston Classical Guitar Society’s Festival 21, celebrating all that is new in 21st century classical guitar.  In New York City he founded and co-directed the Second Sundays Classical Guitar Series at Roger Smith Arts.  He has taught at the New England Conservatory, Plymouth State College, Emmanuel College, Keene State College and Franklin Pierce College and has a B.M. degree from San Francisco Conservatory.   “...a composer with a distinct voice...”—Soundboard