UNBOUND is a commissioning project/album concept/recital program and it is to explore what virtuosity looks/sounds like in the 21st century. I've asked 8 amazing composers from all over the world; Australia, Brazil, Iceland, Latvia, and the United States, to each write me a virtuosic solo guitar piece. Fast arpeggios, fast scales, or complex rhythm? It's totally up to the composers' interpretation. I'm challenged to push my limits as a guitarist and I'm very excited for this challenge. This first piece you are about to see and hear is COR, composed by Krists Auznieks. Composer Krists Auznieks has been praised for his “exhilarating… stunning… luminous“ (San Francisco Classical Voice) music, possessing “astonishing complexity and beauty“ (Broadwayworld), and “old-fashioned elegance“ (Herald Tribune). It's been such an honor to work with him and we are also working on an electric guitar concerto to be premiered with Sinfonietta Riga in 2021 Spring.