Initially an electric guitarist, Frederick Lawton decided to move to classical guitar whilst already at university studying Popular Music and Jazz. 
 

He studied under the incomparable Paolo Pegoraro at the Segovia Guitar Academy in Veneto-Friuli in Italy. Before this he studied privately with Zoran Dukic and Tino Andersen, Graham Anthony Devine at Trinity Laban, Craig Ogden and Gordon Crosskey at The Royal Northern College of Music.

In 2018 he joined the board of The Norwegian Guitar Festival.  He was the first English guitarist to record solo for Guitar Salon International in Los Angeles California. He is now Artistic Director for the Tino Andersen International Guitar Festival and competition in Bergen, Norway, Europe’s biggest new event for the guitar.

As a player he is known as having a diverse interest in expanding the guitar’s repertoire through playing transcriptions of works for other instruments, notably baroque suites and sonatas, as well as piano works from the early 20th century.

As a sought-after teacher, his students have won national guitar competitions, places in the UK National Youth Guitar Ensemble, and places in Conservatoires across Europe and North America. He currently teaches at Highgate School in London, as well as maintaining a small studio of private students, some of whom already conservatoire and MMus students.

He currently plays on a 2024 Michael Gee spruce guitar and a 2020 Michel Belair cedar guitar.