Benjamin Beirs (BM ’06, GPD ’09, Guitar; MM ’07 Guitar Pedagogy) recently relocated to Paris, where he will work with La Locomotive des Arts, an arts management company run by Laure Dyens-Taar, as well teach at a local conservatoire. Beirs plans to study with Judicael Perroy, one of the guitar world’s top performers and pedagogues. This past summer, Beirs recorded a new album in Asheville, NC and will be return in November to perform as a member of Duo Transatlantique. In August, Beir’s CD Widening Circles was re-released by the label Azica, a subsidiary of Naxos.