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A classical guitarist from Cape Town, South Africa, Derek Gripper returns to Bay Chamber’s Café Concert Series. His remarkable performance and recording career includes collaborations with classical guitar legend John Williams at London’s Shakespeare’s Globe, Toumani Diabaté and his Symmetric Orchestra at the Acoustik Festival Bamako, Mali and Trio da Kali at Carnegie Hall. He won a Songlines Award for the best album from Africa and the Middle East. Derek tours regularly in the USA, Canada, Britain, Europe, Australia, Malaysia, India and across Africa. 

His concert programs include his acclaimed interpretations of Toumani Diabaté’s kora pieces, works by Brazilian composers, South African folk sounds, and arrangements of Bach's solo violin works.

Gripper's world class ability “is able to transcend the instrument itself.” Guitar International