AWARDS AND COMPETITIONS

ARIA Winner!   Best Specialty  Artist  (Alberta Recording Industries Association) 1999
ARIA Winner!   Best Classical Artist on Record 1997/98
ARIA Nominee      Music Score of the Year 1997/98
ARIA Nominee      Best Classical Artist on Record 1996/97
ARIA Nominee      Best Classical Artist on Record 1995/96

First  Prize         Great Lakes International Classical  Guitar Competition (University of Akron, 1992)
Second Prize    Ontario Guitar Competition (Guitar Society  of Toronto, 1984)
Third Prize        36th Tokyo International Guitar Contest (Japan  Federation of Guitarists 1993)
Third Prize        Guitar Canada Competition (Calgary 1992)
Fourth Prize     Guitar Foundation of America Solo Competition (New Orleans 1992)
Fourth Prize     VII Alirio Diaz Guitar Competition (Caracas, Venezuela  1990)

     

John with Andrew Zohn, Jason Vieux & Jeff McFadden, New Orleans 1992

Bunka Kaikan Hall, Tokyo, 1993 Photo courtesy of Gendai Guitar Magazine, Japan