CLASSICAL guitarist Neil Campbell will play his first solo concert of the year at the Unity Theatre in February.

The gig will also feature special guests on cello and soprano..

Liverpool-based composer and musician classical guitarist Neil Campbell has been a mainstay of the city’s music scene for many years and has released a series of albums of original music culminating in 2008’s Particle Theory and Ghost Stories.

In 2009, he staged a series of performance events.

They included Ghost Stories – A Night Opera at Liverpool’s St Luke’s Church, St Georges Hall Concert Room and Birkenhead Priory.

He also premiered a new composition, Frankenstein, for his band The Neil Campbell Collective and the city’s Sense of Sound choir.

Campbell says: “Playing solo brings me back to the source of my music – to the state it is in when it is first composed and before layers of other instrumentation, visuals and other concepts are added. It is about picking up an instrument, in this case the classical guitar, and using it to create a more intimate, more direct communication between myself and the audience.”

NEIL Campbell in Concert, Unity Theatre, March 4-5, tickets £8 (£6 concs), 0151 709 4988.