Benjamin Dwyer’s Twelve Études for Guitar can certainly serve as studies, at the most advanced level imaginable but the work has transcended the pedagogical and technical into the realm of the poetic. The Twelve Études for Guitar represent a distillation of time, thought, technical refinement, and musical imagination and invention of the highest order. While the work’s origins may lie in technical considerations, the result is entirely expressive; hauntingly evocative and exuberantly dramatic in turns, always emotionally powerful. (Composer, JOHN BUCKLEY)