Rose Marie Gonzalez - Guitarist and educator

A finger-style guitarist, Rose’s devotion to the guitar started from a young age and now spans over two decades of dedicated practice. Well-established on Melbourne's music scene, Rose performs regularly as a soloist and collaborator, showcasing her diverse music influences and virtuosic guitar technique as she traverses Latin music to classical guitar styles. Since 2019, Rose has curated Guitar Kingdom, ‘where cult guitarists descend for some gentle shredding on the fine stringbox’, bringing concert guitar performances to low-key bars. In 2025 Rose's debut album 'Reach Down Low' was released. With eight original songs, this recording also features top instrumentalists of Melbourne's music scene. Through this debut, Rose cements her unique talents not only as a guitarist-composer, but also as bandleader, arranger, collaborator, improvisor and singer to boot.