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Robert Phelps, guitarist, has been Adjunct Teacher of Guitar at Williams College since 1990. He is a member of the Williams Chamber Players and Jazz Faculty. In 1992, Phelps was the featured soloist at the Guitar Alumni Series of the Yale University School of Music, from which he holds a Master of Music degree in guitar performance. He is a Mel Bay author. Among his publications, Mel Bay's Guitar Workbook was endorsed by guitarists Oscar Ghiglia and Robert Guthrie. The book was used as a class text in fingerboard harmony at the Eastman School of Music, and was the subject of a feature review in Soundboard. (summer, 1996). In addition to premiering works at the College Music Society meetings, Phelps has performed several Canadian-American exchange concerts and master classes at the University of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. In 1996, he joined Trio Sonata, a flute, oboe, and guitar trio, which has concertized throughout the United States and Canada. The trio has a cd, Music For Flute, Oboe, and Guitar, on the Gasparo Label. (GG-1014) Mr. Phelps has also played in major theater productions at the Hartford Stage Company and at the Barter Theater, the state theater of Virginia.

While at Yale, Phelps collaborated with harpsichordist Fernando Valenti to produce six guitar transcriptions from the sonatas for harpsichord by Domenico Scarlatti. These have been published by the Columbia Music Company (CO343) and reviewed in Classical Guitar. His new solo cd, Six On Two is also on Gasparo Records Inc.