Next Bonell Concert In Mexico is on Friday 24th

Carlos is back in Mexico for concerts and masterclasses. His next recital is in San Felipe, Guanajuato on Friday 24th. See here in the Tour Dates page for full details of these events and other concerts in the UK and Italy during March.... Read more

Beatles' Strawberry Fields Forever

Filmed in black and white at the Royal College of Music in August, Carlos plays his arrangement of Strawberry Fields from the album Magical Mystery Guitar Tour. Click here to watch.

How I arranged Beatles classics for classical guitar

Carlos recorded these arrangements on his CD dedicated to the music of The Beatles' Magical Mystery Guitar Tour. Read Carlos' article in the Blog Page by clicking on June 2011.

A concerto for guitar and orchestra by Paul McCartney

Carlos is helping Sir Paul McCartney with a concerto for guitar and orchestra that the ex-Beatle is composing. Over many meetings since the beginning of 2006 Carlos has been notating and pre-recording the guitar part at Sir Paul's studio in England.... Read more

Living in London UK: the guitarists who came and went - but where have the ones born there gone?

Read Carlos' amusing article about Julian Bream, John Williams, Fernando Sor, Francisco Corbetta (who?) among others... Enter the Blog Page and click on January 2011

MONDAYS IN LONDON - drop in on Carlos' guitar classes in central London

After the half-term break on Monday 13th February Joao Loureiro will be directing the classes on 20th and 27th February. Carlos will be back teaching in March. Turn up any Monday until 12th March to join in. On the last day of term 19th March you can play in a public concert with special guest artist and free admission! The list of guest artists who have played on these occasions has included many of today's celebrated players of the younger generation.

Times:
6.00 - 7.30pm Performance Class
7.45 - 9.15pm Ensemble Class... Read more

Practise Alone Does Not Make Perfect

"It matters not whether we repeat a phrase ten times or a hundred times if we do not learn something from each time that we do so" - Read Carlos' recent article here in the Blog Page

Another magazine feature for Carlos's new album

The widely read and respected magazine Guitar Planet carries a feature about the Magical Mystery Guitar Tour album in its latest internet issue. You can read it in Latest News at http://www.guitarplanet.eu

Acoustic Magazine reviews Carlos' latest album in the November issue

Magical Mystery Guitar Tour CD:
"The playing is impeccable throughout and the arrangements are a constant delight - playful and intriguing without ever losing sight of those oh-so-familiar tunes. It takes both nerve and a gift for invention to say something new within this material, but Bonell pulls it off with the panache of a true master….This is a genuinely lovely album."
Acoustic Magazine, November 2011

Total Guitar Magazine describes the album as "exquisite"

Carlos' new album of Beatles' music arranged for solo guitar has been described as "exquisite" by Total Guitar magazine and "breathtaking" by BBC Radio Producer David Lowe.

The album is available here with free delivery, and on itunes.... Read more

Spanish Diverdi magazine publishes an interview and review

The Spanish CD magazine Diverdi published in the October issue an interview with Carlos and a review of the Magical Mystery Guitar Tour album.

"Bonell takes his guitar, with the means of this powerful repertoire directly to the Public, with a capital P. Basing himself on the original music, Bonell expresses the music in an essentially direct style while still revealing his own personality as a musician and interpreter of a classical background. And so, Blackbird emerges from Bonell's memory with the unique addition of an extract from one of the most celebrated pages of classical music, the Bourrée from Bach's First Lute Suite.... Read more

Five minute warm-up

"A five minute warm-up session sounds so short as to hardly be worth the time and effort. Yet warming up the hands and fingers before playing is very important - and five minutes can make all the difference...." Read Carlos' article in the Blog page published on 8th October.

Flying Fish Guitarists And Other Animals

.....And What We can Learn From Our Fellow Creatures - that is the title of Carlos' blog published on 1st October. Curious? Read it here in the Blog page. Click on the month of October.

A capacity audience turn out for Carlos and Martin Taylor

Carlos and jazz guitar supremo Martin Taylor gave the latest concert in the Transformations Music Series to a full house at the Bolivar Hall, London, last Friday 21st October. The Bolivar Hall is a beautiful hall and cultural centre in the Venezuelan Embassy. Carlos played three Preludes and the Chôros by Heitor Villa-Lobos, and his arrangements of the Beatles' Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields and Here Comes The Sun. Martin played excerpts from The Great American Songbook as well as a selection of his own original compositions, including a calypso-style piece inspired by his time in Venezuela in the 1970s. They ended with two duets - their own arrangements of Spanish Romance and Yesterday.... Read more

You can now download sheet music and tabs from Carlos' recordings

Sheet music for more than 15 titles are now available for download from MusicRadar. They include the Queen Guitar Rhapsodies arranged for solo guitar by Carlos and David Young, J.S.Bach's Lute Suite in E minor as recorded by Carlos on his Essential Classics DVD, Gaspar Sanz's Canarios and lots more.

World première in Derry receives a standing ovation

Carlos with the Contempo String Quartet gave the first performance of Laurence Roman's Quintet at the City of Derry Guitar Festival on Saturday. The work - in three movements - is the composer's first composition for guitar. Carlos says "I think it is a very fine work by a really good composer. We were all thrilled that the audience loved it." Also on the programme was Paul Coles' Romanza which was receiving its second performance after Carlos premièred it last year.

Interview with BBC Radio Scotland

Beatles album - Listen to BBC Radio Scotland interview with Carlos... Read more

Solo arrangements in sheet music and tabs including best-selling Queen Guitar Rhapsodies available

Sheet music and tabs for the solo guitar pieces recorded on the Queen Guitar Rhapsodies CD are on internet sale sites' best sellers' lists, together with rock albums by Blur and Kasabian. They are now available for download from Faber Music Store.... Read more