Jazz Guitarist

Internationally Acclaimed Jazz Guitarist and Educator.

Trefor Owen believes that Jazz should be both beautiful and communicative and accomplishes these qualities in his own playing, with his superb sound, fluid melodic lines and punchy rhythm.

Trefor Owen is one of the foremost Jazz guitarists in the UK  A highly respected teacher, he has over twenty years’ experience teaching at the highest level both in Britain and the USA.  For eight of those years he was an Associate Lecturer at Leeds College of Music and for twenty four years was visiting lecturer at Liverpool Community College. 

In 2006, for the third consecutive year, he toured California, appearing in San Francisco and at John Pisano’s Guitar Night at Spazios, Sherman Oaks, L. A and in May 2007 he appeared at the prestigious Jazz Cafe, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. and for the tenth consecutive year performed in the Jazz Bar at the Classic American Guitar Show. 

For nine years, Trefor has led a team of international guitarists tutoring and performing both at the North Wales Jazz Guitar Weekends and at the North Wales International Jazz Guitar Festival and Summer School in Wrexham, the biggest jazz guitar events in the world.  Trefor Owen has considerable experience in tutoring clinics and workshops.  Also, he has conducted celebrity workshops at Cork International Jazz Festival, London’s Guitar Institute, the Zinc Bar, New York, New York Guitar Show, Long Island, the Chet Atkins Convention in Nashville, Jazzmasters Workshops, Carmel, USA and Frigolet, France.

Trefor Owen has appeared/toured with the following:

American musicians – Mundell Lowe, Johnny Smith, Howard Alden, Jimmy Bruno, Jack Wilkins, Randy Johnson, John Pisano, Gene Bertoncini, Anthony Wilson, Ned Boyton, Corey Christansen, Sid Jacobs, Steve Herberman, Bruce Froman, Jimmy Gourley, Sal Salvador, Peter Leitch, Ron Jackson, Ron Eschete, Jim Nichols, Scott Hamilton, Harry Allen, Ali Ryerson, Bill Perkins, Warren Vache, Spike Robinson, George Masso.

European musicians – Iain Ballamy, Louis Stewart, Martin Taylor, Dave O’Higgins, Peter King, Don Weller, Alan Barnes, Bruce Adams, Don Rendall, Alan Skidmore, Ike Isaacs, John Etheridge, Jim Mullen, Ian Carr, Roy Williams, Bruce Adams, Jack Emblow, Dave Green, Martin Drew, Bill Coleman plus others.

For twelve years Trefor has been a Mapson Guitars (USA) endorser, and now endorses Sonntag Guitars, Thomastik-Infeld Strings, Evans Amps and Redstone Audio Speaker Cabinets.