Dr. Michael Knopf is an Australian composer/guitarist originally from the United States. His compositions range from contemporary art music to sacred choral music, and include choral and orchestral works, chamber music and over 450 works for guitar (solo, duos and quartets), chamber music and an orchestral concerto. Michael’s oeuvre for solo guitar includes his Once Around the Sun, 365 new works for classical guitarists. Knopf’s many compositions for guitar are of particular importance, composed with his own unique contemporary approaches that include 20th and 21st century compositional strategies and aesthetics, and also the use of traditional, multi-style and poly-genre forms including works inspired and/or influenced by cultural or historical music. His compositions have been performed in Australia, Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan and China. Many of Knopf’s compositions are exemplary of his interest in genre and style synthesis in new music the focus of his doctoral study. His creative workings often feature “contaminations” of genre signs and ideas as a process of experimentation. The goal is the enhancement of musical context, form, and resonance.