"Ghosts was written for guitarist Norbert Kraft with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. It was designed to be used either as a set of individual studies (for intermediate to very advanced students) or as a virtuoso concert piece. Each study is dedicated to someone who has influenced my music in some way, as a teacher, a performer, a friend or, in one case, a former student. Each is prefaced with an epigraph in the form of a Haiku"

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Born in Toronto, John Armstrong studied composition at the University of Toronto and the University of Michigan where he received his Doctorate in 1983. His teachers included George Wilson, Pulitzer Prize winners Leslie Bassett and William Bolcom, as well as the celebrated pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. John won prizes in both the William St. Clair Lowe and Sir Ernest MacMillan competitions sponsored by the Composer's, Author's and Publisher's Association of Canada (now SOCAN). He has been commissioned and performed by musicians such as William Beauvais, Ray Sealey, Louis Trépanier, Alan Torok, Norbert Kraft, The Canadian Guitar Quartet, The Continuum Consort, The Victoria Guitar Trio, The Alliance for Canadian New Music Project and The Guitar Society of Toronto. He has received multiple grants and commissions from the Laidlaw Foundation, the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, Alberta Culture, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the City of Ottawa. Performed and broadcast throughout Canada, his music has also been played in Belgium, France, Great Britain, Korea, Norway, Vietnam and the United States. His music has been published by Alberta Keys Music Publishing (Calgary), New Art Music Editions (Winnipeg), Oceanna (Bobcaygeon), Cypress (Vancouver) and the Canadian Music Centre (Toronto). Although primarily a composer of concert music, he has also written for film, dance and theatre; he is well known in Ottawa for his 12 collaborations with Odyssey Theatre. Having taught at a number of universities in Canada and the United States, John Armstrong is currently an Adjunct Professor of Composition and Theory at the University of Ottawa.

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