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Welcome! My name is Stefan, and I am a musician and author based in Vienna, Austria.

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  • The “not good enough” feeling never fully goes away

    Right now, I’m busy in the recording studio. After years of my band going full DIY and doing everything ourselves, we scraped together the money and booked an awesome studio with a talented producer to record our next EP. We have already finished recording the drums and the bass, so until now I’ve mostly been…

  • Fresh from the press: Mauro Giuliani’s Etudes for Guitar

    Sometimes, when you’re on a roll, you’re on a roll. Over the years, I’ve collected quite a few unfinished projects on my computer, and some of them are real gems. Among them are a lot of great pieces by Mauro Giuliani. Things have been going really well lately, and I’ve completed the transcriptions of four…

  • I haven’t practiced for a week 🙂

    When I’m not playing guitar or writing guitar books, I really enjoy playing computer games, especially flight simulators. I’ve been “flying” online with this one group for years now, and lots of us have become real friends. So much that we started meeting in real life a few years ago. We’ve met in Munich, in…

  • Fresh from the press: “Ferdinando Carulli’s Guitar School: Ècole de Guitare, Op.241 “

    I’ve just published my new book “Ferdinando Carulli’s Guitar School: Ècole de Guitare, Op.241 – In Standard Notation and Tablature”. Ferdinando Carulli’s complete guitar method, now with tablature. First published around 1825, École de Guitare, Op. 241 is the final version of the method Ferdinando Carulli (1770–1841) had been developing since 1810. Carulli spent his…

  • Fresh from the press: “The Bach Cello Suites for Guitar, 3rd Edition”

    I’ve just published the 3rd edition of my book “THE BACH CELLO SUITES FOR GUITAR: In Standard Notation and Tablature”. This was one of my first books, and over the years, I’ve received lots of valuable feedback. This third edition is a complete rewrite of the transcription. Readers of the first two editions told me…