Biography

Internationally Acclaimed Jazz Guitarist and Educator.

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 jammed, appeared or toured with the following American guitarists:

Jim Hall, Mundell Lowe, Johnny Smith, George Benson, John Pisano, Al Viola, Gene Bertoncini, Sal Salvador, Bucky Pizzarelli, Howard Alden, Jimmy Bruno, Jack Wilkins, Steve Herberman, Vic Juris, Ken Hatfield, Paul Bollenback, Randy Johnson, Corey Christiansen, Ned Boynton, Frank DiBussolo, Rick Stone, Jimmy Gourley, Peter Leitch, Ron Jackson, Ron Eschete, Jim Nichols, Anthony Wilson, Sid Jacobs, Bruce Forman, Bobby Broom, Cheryl Bailey, Tony DeCaprio, Ron Anthony plus others.

Other American instrumentalists:

Harry Allen, Ali  Ryerson, Bill Perkins, Warren Vache, Spike Robinson, George Masso, Jake Hanna, Chuck Berghofer, Kendall Kay, Luther Hughes, The Seleno Clarke Quintet in Harlem, NY.

European Jazz Guitarists:  -  Bireli Lagrene, Louis Stewart, Martin Taylor, Ike Isaacs, John Etheridge, Jim Mullen, Roy Sainsbury, Ulrich Hoffmeier, Tony Marshall, Gary Potter, Ulf Wakenius, Andreas Oberg and Thomas Brendgens-Mönkemeyer.

Other European instrumentalists:
Alan Skidmore, Dave O’Higgins, Peter King, Bruce Adams, Alan Barnes, Don Weller, Iain Ballamy, Don Rendall, Ian Carr, Roy Williams, John Barnes, Jack Emblow, Bill Coleman, Dave Green, Martin Drew, Martin Creese, Steve Brown, Steven Keogh, Billy Thompson, plus others.

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