"All the pieces on this CD are either compositions by Jonas Khalil himself or his arrangements of the works of other composers. His own compositions range from a Hommage to the great guitar-composer Leo Brouwer over an adaption of a guitar intro from the repertoire of his band to a Fantasia, with ""chorale-like periods that had something of a Baroque sound to them"". Khalil arranged two pieces from the ""Pieces de Clavecin"" by Jacques Duphly (1715-1789), the Serenade for Violoncello solo by Hans-Werner Henze (1926-2012) and a Hymn out of ""lphigenie en Tauride"" by Christoph Willibald Gluck ( 1714-1787). Jonas Khalil, who lives in Stuttgart, played in his first band at the age of eleve n . After s chool he studied music i n Darmstadt, Stuttgart and Salzburg. As a music teacher he is working with students of all ages for many years now. Besides his solo recitals he is playing in several chamber music ensembles and as a lead guitar player in the band Sacred Steel."