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Who’s Who Wednesday Categories

Royalty John Williams Julian Bream Christopher Parkening Pepe Romero Master Teachers and Top Performers Oscar Ghiglia Manual Barruecco (Peabody Conservatory-Baltimore, Maryland) Sergio & Adair Assad Sharon Isbin (Julliard School of Music-New York, NY) David Russell Elliot Fisk (Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria) Roland Dyens (Conservatory of Music in Paris, France) Paul Galbraith The University of Southern California Pepe Romero Andrew York William Kanengiser Scott Tenant Martha Masters Brian Head Dusan Bogdanovic Christopher Parkening Top Composers Leo Brouwer Brian Head (University of Southern California) Dusan Bogdanovic (San Francisco Conservatory) Andrew York (University of Southern California) Top University Teachers Aaron Shearer (Duquesne University-Pittsburgh, PA)

Andrew York (University of Southern California) William Kanengiser (University of Southern California) Scott Tennant (University of Southern California) Brian Head (University of Southern California) Martha Masters (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA) Bruce Holzman (Florida State University) Adam Holzman (University of Texas, Austin, TX) Tom Patterson (University of Arizona-Tucson, AZ) Mike Christiansen (Utah State University-Logan,UT)

Who's Who Wednesday Year Two

Frank Koonce (Arizona State University-Tempe,AZ) Michael Chapdelaine (University of New Mexico-Albuquerque,NM) Robert Guthrie (Southern Methodist University-Dallas,TX) David Tannenbaum (San Francisco Conservatory of Music) Stanley Yates (Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN) Benjamin Verdery (Yale University – New Haven, CT) Jason Vieaux (Cleveland Institute of Music-Cleveland,OH) Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) Winners Michael Chapdelaine-1982 Adam Holzman-1983 Jason Vieaux-1992 Martha Masters-2000 Jerome Ducharme-2005 Outstanding Young Performers (Under age 40) Martha Masters Jason Vieaux Ana Vidovic Jerome Ducharme


John Williams Websites: www.wikipedia.org www.plum.cream.org

Born in Melbourne, Australia to an English father (Len Williams) and an Australian-Chinese mother, Williams was taught initially by his father. At the age of twelve he went to Italy to study under "The Maestro", Andrés Segovia. Later, he attended the Royal College of Music in London. He is visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Williams made his professional debut at the Wigmore Hall in Lon-don on 6th November 1958, five months shy of his 18th birthday and completing his formal musical education. Williams studied piano and music theory. He didn't study guitar simply because, like most other musical colleges and conservatoires at that time, the RCM didn't provide a Guitar curriculum! Shortly after his graduation, how-ever, he was invited to run the newly-created Guitar department. The College was evidently getting prepared for the onslaught of musicians who'd want to emulate their recent alumnus! He remained in the post until 1973, when his place was taken by his former student Carlos Bonnell. Williams has maintained a relationship with the College throughout the years and remains a Visiting Professor, including to the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. John Williams was one of several high-profile young classical solosists trying to make careers during the sixties, very much against the counter-culture norm for their peers. John Williams has always spent a considerable amount of energy on expanding his repertoire beyond what Segovia had established.

Date of Birth: April 24, 1941 Place of Birth: Melbourne, Australia Schools Attended: Royal Academy of Music in London Teachers: father, Andre Segovia University Currently Teaching: Visiting Pro-fessor at the Royal Academy of Music in Lon-don Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? Yes How many recordings? 153 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Yes, 1973 Outstanding Achievements:


Julian Bream

Date of Birth: July 15, 1933 Place of Birth: London, England Schools Attended: Royal College of Music Teachers: father University Currently Teaching: Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? Yes How many recordings? Over 70 Currently Touring? Grammy Award Winner? Yes, 1973 Outstanding Achievements: Order of the British Empire, Villa-Lobos Gold Medal

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Julian Bream, guitarist and lutenist, has delighted audiences since his early recitals as a child prodigy. Following an official debut at Cheltenham on 17 February 1947, at the age of thirteen, he was soon acknowledged as one of the most remarkable artists of the post-war era. By his sixteenth birthday, Julian Bream had taken part in dozens of BBC broadcasts, recitals, and film music, and, furthermore, fascinated by the lute and its culture, had begun researching the Elizabethan repertoire. In No-vember 1951, he made a triumphant debut at the Wigmore Hall, London. Julian Bream was awarded an OBE (1964) for services to music and the CBE (1985). He has received Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Surrey (1968), and Leeds (1984). In 1976 he was personally presented with the Villa-Lobos Gold Medal by the composer's widow. He was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music (1966), and has been honoured with Fellowships of the Royal College of Mu-sic (1981) and the Royal Northern College of Music (1983). In 1988 he became an Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society, and was also presented with the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist's Award in 1996. In 1997, in celebra-tion if the fiftieth anniversary of his debut, he performed a recital at Cheltenham Town Hall. A few weeks later the BBC dedicated a special television tribute This Is Your Life programme to Julian Bream, filmed after a commemorative concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. His engagements in recent years have included a Gala solo performance at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, a Kosovo Aid concert at St. John's Smith Square, London, with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields recit-als at the Snape Proms, Aldeburgh, and at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival and a tour of UK National Trust properties in summer and autumn 2000. In November 2001 he gave an anniversary recital at Wigmore Hall, celebrating 50 years since his debut there in 1951.


Christopher Parkening Websites: www.wikipedia.org www.parkening.com

Parkening is recognized as heir to the legacy of Segovia, who said, "Christopher Parkening is a great artist—-he is one of the most brilliant guitarists in the world." Christopher Parkening lives with his wife, Theresa, and son Luke in Southern Cali-fornia. Each summer he teaches master classes in Bozeman, Montana. Parkening was acknowledged as “Best Classical Guitarist” in the nationwide readers’ poll of Guitar Player Magazine for many consecutive years, he was placed in their Gallery of Greats along with Andrés Segovia and English guitarists John Williams and Julian Bream. Parkening’s commitment to music extends beyond his demanding perform-ance schedule. June 2006 saw the launch of the Parkening International Guitar Competition, honoring Parkening’s lifetime commitment to fostering musical excel-lence in young artists. The Parkening International Guitar Competition features per-formers from around the world and offers the largest prize purse of any guitar com-petition worldwide. The competition will be held every four years at Pepperdine Uni-versity, where Mr. Parkening was recently named a Distinguished Professor of Mu-sic and has chaired the Christopher Parkening Chair in Classical Guitar since the fall of 2002. He also teaches an annual summer master class at Montana State Uni-versity in Bozeman, Montana. He has recorded 20 albums, and earned two Grammy® nominations in the category of “Best Classical Recording.” He recently received the University Musical Society's "Distinguished Artist Award" for 2003 at the Ford Honors Program. He founded the classical guitar department at Pepper-dine University, and holds the Christopher Parkening Chair in Classical Guitar as Distinguished Professor of Music.

Date of Birth: December 14, 1947 Place of Birth: Los Angeles, CA Schools Attended: University of Southern Cali-fornia (USC) Teachers: Andre Segovia, James Smith University Currently Teaching: Summer mas-ter classes in Bozeman, MT Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? Yes How many recordings? 21 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements: Honorary Doc-torate of Music from Montana State University


Pepe Romero

Date of Birth: March 18, 1944 Place of Birth: Malaga, Spain Schools Attended: Teachers: father, Celedonio Romero University Currently Teaching: UCLA guest Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? Yes How many recordings? Over 50 Currently touring? Yes, worldwide Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements: Has been knighted, received an Honorary Doctorate of Music and the Premio Andalucia de Musica, the highest honor from Spain

Websites: www.wikipedia.org www.peperomero.com

Since his first recording (at the age of 15) he has recorded over 50 solo albums and 30 albums as part of the famed guitar quartet The Romeros. Pepe Romero is the second son of Celedonio Romero, who was his only guitar teacher. His first profes-sional appearance was in a shared concert with his father when Pepe was only seven years old. In 1957 Celedonio Romero left Franco's Spain for the United States with his family. Andres Segovia and composer Federico Moreno Torroba chose Pepe Romero to record the world premiere of Diálogos entre guitarra y orquesta; it was originally written for Segovia. His Majesty, King Juan Carlos I of Spain, knighted Pepe Romero and his brothers, Celin and Angel into the Order of "Isabel la Catolica". The official ceremony of this high honor took place at the Uni-versity of Southern California, February 11, 2000 and included a gala performance of The Romeros. Pepe Romero also received the "Premio Andalucia de Müsica", the highest recognition given by his homeland for his contribution to the arts. He holds an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Victoria, British Colum-bia. With his father and brothers, Pepe Romero helped establish The Romeros Quartet as the leading classical guitar ensemble in the world. As a member of The Romeros, he has been invited to play at the White House, has performed at the Vatican for Pope John Paul II, and has performed for His Royal Highness Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sophía of Spain, and Queen Beatrice of Holland.


Oscar Ghiglia Websites: www.wikipedia.org

Graduated from Santa Cecilia’s Conservatory of Rome Oscar Ghiglia began soon his apprenticeship beside the great Master Andres Segovia, who was his major in-fluence and inspiration during his formative years. Later Oscar Ghiglia “inherited” Segovia’s glorious Class in Siena’s Accademia Chigiana and spread his own teach-ing around the five continents in a sister vocation to his concertizing. Oscar Ghiglia is proud of having founded such strongholds of guitar teaching as the Guitar Department at the Aspen Music Festival (Colorado, USA) as well as in the Festival de Musique des Arcs and the “Incontri Chitarristici di Gargnano”, of having been artist in residence, or visiting professor in such centers as the Cincinnati, San Francisco Conservatories, The Juilliard, the Hartt School and the Northwestern Uni-versity of Evanston, Ill. In all these centers and elsewhere Ghiglia has been nurturing talents and forming or perfecting young artists musical outlook and interpretation. Presently, after his new-est CD “Manuel Ponce’ Guitar music” a new set of recording projets are under way ( note a J.S Bach lute works CD, in the final editing process) and his teaching con-tinues, year long, in Basel Switzerland, where he has held the professorship in gui-tar at the Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel from 1983 till 2004. Founder of the International Guitar Competition of Gargnano (Italy) O.G. boasts a very high number of first prize winners among his student, in competitions around the world. Born of an artistic family - his father and grandfather both famed painters, his mother an accomplished pianist. Though his early choice produced a few hun-dred water colours and a number of oil paintings, he soon realized music was his way.

Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Schools Attended: Santa Celcilia’s Conserva-tory of Rome Teachers: Andre Segovia University Currently Teaching: Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, artist-in-residence in a number of major universities Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? Yes How many recordings? Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements: Inherited Andre Segovia’s class in Siena’s Accademia Chigiana


Manuel Barrueco Websites: www.wikipedia.org www.barrueco.com

Manuel Barrueco began playing the guitar at the age of eight, and he attended the Esteban Salas Conservatory in his native Cuba. He immigrated with his family to the United States in 1967, as political refugees. Later, he completed his advanced stud-ies at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where he now shares his love for teach-ing with a small number of exceptionally gifted young guitarists from all over the world. His career has been dedicated to bringing the guitar to the main musical cen-ters of the world. During three decades of concertizing, he has performed across the United Sates from the New World Symphony in Miami to the Seattle Symphony, and from the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic to New York’s Lincoln Center. He has appeared with such prestigious orchestras as the Philadelphia Or-chestra and with the Boston Symphony under the direction of Seiji Ozawa, in the American Premiere of Toru’s Takemitsu’s To the Edge of Dream. In addition, he ap-pears regularly with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and with San Francisco Performances. His international tours have taken him to some of the most important musical centers in the world. Highlights include the Royal Albert Hall in London, Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Philharmonie in Berlin, Teatro Real in Madrid, and Palau de la Musica in Barcelona. In Asia he has com-pleted close to a dozen tours of Japan and made repeated appearances in Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Barrueco’s tours of Latin America have in-cluded performances in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico. He has also performed as a guest soloist with other international orchestras such as the Russian State Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, NHK Sym-phony, New Japan Philharmonic, Auckland Symphony in New Zealand, and the ra-dio symphonies of Munich and Frankfurt.

Date of Birth: 1952 Place of Birth: Santiago de Cuba Schools Attended: Esteban Salas Conserva-tory,Peabody Conservatory Teachers: Aaron Shearer University Currently Teaching: Peabody Con-servatory in Baltimore, Maryland Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? How many recordings? 17 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements: first classical guitarist to receive the Concert Artist Guild Award


Sergio, Odair & Badi Assad Websites: www.wikipedia.org

The Assads embark on a North American tour in fall 1995 with engagements that in-clude Toronto's Ford Centre, and performances in Phoenix, Nashville, The Wolf Trap Foundation in Vienna, Virginia, and New York City. In 1993-94, the duo re-turned to Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall in New York. Last season they appeared at Pasadena's Ambassador Auditorium and in San Francisco, Seattle, Miami and New York City. The twentieth century has produced a number of guitar duos formed by happenstance or recording-company intervention. But for Brazilian-born siblings Sergio and Odair Assad, the roots obviously go much deeper. Today's foremost gui-tar duo, the Assads have been credited with doublehandedly reviving Brazilian mu-sic for the instrument. As children, the Assads' mandolinist father guided their dis-covery of Brazilian music. Their uncanny ability to play guitar together soon evi-denced itself, and seven years of study with the classical guitarist and lutenist Mon-ina Tavora (a disciple and former pupil of Andrés Segovia) followed. The Assads' American career began in 1969. Badi Assad has over 16 recordings to her credit.

Date of Birth: 1952 Sergio, 1956 Odair, 1966 Badi Place of Birth: Brazil Schools Attended: Teachers: Monina Tavora University Currently Teaching: Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? Yes How many recordings? 33 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements:


Sharon Isbin Websites: www.sharonisbin.com www.wikipedia.com

Acclaimed for her extraordinary lyricism, technique and versatility, GRAMMY Award winner Sharon Isbin has been hailed as “the pre-eminent guitarist of our time”. She is also the winner of Guitar Player magazine’s “Best Classical Guitarist” award, the Madrid Queen Sofia and Toronto Competitions, and was the first guitarist ever to win the Munich Competition. Ms. Isbin’s catalogue of over 25 recordings—from Ba-roque, Spanish/Latin and 20th Century to crossover and jazz-fusion—reflects re-markable versatility. She received a 2005 Latin GRAMMY nomination for “Best Classical Album” and a 2006 GLAAD Media Award nomination for “Outstanding Mu-sic Artist” She is the author of the Classical Guitar Answer Book, and is Director of guitar departments at the Aspen Music Festival and Juilliard School (which she created in l989 becoming the first and only guitar instructor in the institution’s 100-year history). Sharon Isbin has been acclaimed for expanding the guitar reper-toire with some of the finest new works of the century. She has commissioned and premiered more concerti than any other guitarist, as well as numerous solo and chamber works. Her American Landscapes (EMI/Virgin Classics) with the SPCO conducted by Hugh Wolff is the first-ever recording of American guitar concerti and features works written for her by John Corigliano, Joseph Schwantner, and Lukas Foss. (In November 1995, it was launched in the space shuttle Atlantis and pre-sented to Russian cosmonauts during a rendezvous with Mir.) Sharon Isbin is fea-tured on the soundtrack of Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award winning The De-parted starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson and Matt Damon. She was also heard on the Awards telecast excerpt viewed by nearly 40 million. 4 ACADEMY AWARDS, including BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR.

Date of Birth: August 7, 1956 Place of Birth: Minneapolis, MN Schools Attended: Yale Teachers: Andre Segovia, Oscar Ghiglia University Currently Teaching: Julliard, Aspen Music Festival Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? Yes How many recordings? 25 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? 4 times Outstanding Achievements: Recorded the soundtrack for “The Departed”, Music was sent to space


David Russell Websites: www.wikipedia.org www.davidrussell.com

When David was just five years of age, his family moved from Glasgow to the Span-ish paradise of Minorca, where he very quickly became interested in the guitar, imi-tating the likes of Andrés Segovia and Julian Bream. Today, David resides in Galicia, Spain, but spends most of his time touring the world, appearing regularly at prestigious concert halls in major cities such as New York, London, Tokyo, Los An-geles, Madrid, Toronto, Amsterdam and Denver. He is also regularly invited to play in music festivals. During his studies at the Royal Academy, Russell won the Julian Bream Guitar Prize twice and received a scholarship from the Ralph Vaughan Wil-liams Trust. Later he won numerous international competitions, including the Andrés Segovia Competition, the José Ramírez Competition, and Spain's prestigious Fran-cisco Tárrega Competition. In recognition of his great talent as well as his interna-tional career, Russell was named a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in Lon-don in 1997. In May 2003, he was awarded the great honour of being made "adopted son" of Es Migjorn, the town on Minorca where he grew up. In November 2003, he was given the Medal of Honour of the Conservatory of the Balearics. In 2004, he won a Grammy Award for his CD "Aire Latino", in the category of best in-strumental soloist in classical music. This year he received a homage from the mu-sic conservatory of Vigo, culminating with the opening of the new Auditorium, to which they gave the name "Auditorio David Russell".

Date of Birth: 1953 Place of Birth: Glasgow Schools Attended: Royal Academy of Music Teachers: University Currently Teaching: Won the following Competitions: Two time winner of the Julian Bream Guitar Competition, The Andre Segovia Competition, Francisco Tar-rega Competition Mentions Andre Segovia? Yes How many recordings? 22 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Yes, 2005 Outstanding Achievements: named a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in 1997


Eliot Fisk Websites: www.wikipedia.org www.classicalguitarmidi.com www.eliotfisk.com

A creative innovator linked to the great romantic tradition of the past, guitarist Eliot Fisk is one of the most exciting and unique artists before the public today. Known world wide for his adventurous repertoire and willingness to take art music into un-usual venues (including schools, senior centers and even prisons!) he belongs, as his great mentor Andrés Segovia once wrote, “at the top line of our artistic world.” In June of 2006, by order of King Juan Carlos of Spain, Eliot Fisk was awarded the Cruz of Isabel la Cátolica for his service to the cause of Spanish music. Earlier re-cipients of this rarely bestowed honor include Andrés Segovia and Yehudi Menuhin. Eliot Fisk has expanded the repertoire for the guitar enormously through countless ground breaking transcriptions of works by Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Mozart, Paganini, and others. Eliot Fisk is founder and director of Boston Guitar Fest, an annual event held in the month of June at the New England Conservatory. This workshop is dedi-cated to exploring new and exciting technical and musical possibilities of the guitar within a broadly international cultural context. Eliot Fisk was the last direct pupil of Andrés Segovia and also studied interpretation under the legendary harpsichordist, Ralph Kirkpatrick, at Yale University from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1976. Called by one New York Times headline “A Fiery Missionary to the Uncon-verted,” Eliot Fisk devotes considerable energy to teaching. He is Professor at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, where he teaches in 5 different lan-guages, and in Boston at the New England Conservatory. His students have come from all corners of the earth. Many have gone on to become important performers and teachers in their own right.

Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Philadelphia, PA Schools Attended: Yale University Teachers: Ralph Kirkpatrick (harpsichordist), Andre Segovia University Currently Teaching: Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? Yes How many recordings? 16 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements:


Roland Dyens

Date of Birth: October 19, 1955 Place of Birth: Tunisia, France Schools Attended: Teachers: Alberto Ponce University Currently Teaching: Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris Won the following Competitions: multiple Mentions Andre Segovia? Yes How many recordings? 12 Currently touring? Yes, worldwide Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements: numerous-see below

Websites: www.wikipedia.org www.rolanddyens.com

Born on October 19, 1955, French interpreter, composer, arranger and improviser Roland Dyens began guitar studies at the age of nine. Four years later he became a student of Spanish Master guitarist Alberto Ponce and, in 1976, was awarded the Licence de Concert de l’Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. While learning his in-strument, Roland Dyens also studied composition with the renowned teacher, com-poser and orchestra director Désiré Dondeyne under whose guidance he was awarded the first Prize in Harmony, Counterpoint and Analysis. Among the most dis-tinguished awards obtained during the early years of his career, Roland Dyens re-ceived the Special Prize at the International Competition "Città di Alessandria" (Italy) and the Grand Prix du Disque de l’Académie Charles-Cros, both in honor of the ma-jor Brasilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. At the age of 25 he became a laureate of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation. Eight years after this, he was recognized as one of the “100 Best Living Guitarists” in all styles by the French magazine Guitarist. On the 30th of September 2006, he was awarded the “Chitarra d’Oro 2006” for his works as a composer by the Presidency of the International Guitar Competition "Città di Alessandria" . As a performer, Dyens is known for his extraordinary capac-ity for improvisation. His guitar music draws on many elements of folk music and jazz, and has become popular with players. Tango en Skaï (1985) is by far his best-known piece, but the more extended Libra Sonatine (1986), written after Dyens had suffered a heart attack, is also widely played. Dyens tours extensively and has per-formed at many music festivals and held master classes at many locations across Europe, the United States and Asia.He currently teaches at the Conservatoire Na-tional Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he is Professor of Guitar.


Paul Galbraith Websites: www.wikipedia.org www.Paul-Galbrath.com

At the age of 17, Galbraith won the Silver Medal at the Segovia International Guitar Competition. Andrés Segovia, who was present, called his playing "magnificent." Galbraith's unique playing position was first revealed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1989. His guitar (designed in collaboration with the late luthier David Rubio) is sup-ported by a metal endpin, similar to that of a cello, that rests on a wooden reso-nance box. The instrument has two extra strings, in addition to those of a normal six-string guitar, one high and one low. Both the guitar's extraordinary design and Galbraith's playing style are considered groundbreaking developments in the history of the instrument, increasing its range to an unprecedented extent. Galbraith has lived in Malawi, Greece, London, and, for the last ten years, Brazil. He was a founding member of the Brazilian Guitar Quartet, playing with them until sum-mer of 2003. His principal teacher, since 1983, has been the Greek conductor, pian-ist and philosopher George Hadjinikos. Galbraith has lived in Brazil with his lutenist wife Celia, and their daughter Luiza since 1996.

Date of Birth: March 1964 Place of Birth: Scotland Schools Attended: Teachers: George Hadjinikos University Currently Teaching: Won the following Competitions: Segovia In-ternational Guitar Competition Mentions Andre Segovia? Yes How many recordings? 5 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Nominated Outstanding Achievements:


Andrew York Websites: www.andrewyork.net www.wikipedia.com

He was a member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet from 1990 to 2006, and has toured extensively with this famous quartet. Although best known as a classical mu-sician, York is also an accomplished jazz guitar player, and studied with Joe Diorio and Lenny Breau. He went on to study the guitar at James Madison University. In 1980 he was awarded a Bachelor of Music degree in classical guitar performance from this university. He went on to complete his Master of Music degree in studio guitar at the University of Southern California in 1986. In 2006, York left the LAGQ to pursue personal artistic creativity and posted an open letter on the quartet's site. He was replaced by Matthew Greif. Andrew is a virtuoso classical and jazz guitarist; an extremely rare combination. As a classical guitarist, Andrew received a grant from the Del Amo Foundation for Study in Spain, and as a jazz player studied with Joe Diorio and Lenny Breau. Andrew received his Master of Music degree from Uni-versity of Southern California, and is the only USC graduate in the school’s history to twice receive the Outstanding Alumni of the Year Award – in 1997 as a member of LAGQ and in 2003 as the sole recipient.

Date of Birth: 1958 Place of Birth: Schools Attended: James Madison University,University of Southern California (USC) Teachers: James Smith, Joe Diorio, Lenny Breau University Currently Teaching: University of Southern California (USC) Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? No How many recordings? 14 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Yes Outstanding Achievements: founding member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet 1990-2006


William Kanengiser Websites: www.kanengiser.com

Mr. Kanengiser has won recognition for expanding the repertory beyond the staples of guitar literature. He has performed and recorded works written for him by com-posers as diverse as Dusan Bogdanovich, Ian Krouse, and Brian Head, and has won consistent praise for his own transcriptions of scores from the traditional reper-tory, most notably Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A major (featuring the “Rondo Alla Turka”), which he prepared for the Columbia Pictures release, Crossroads, in which he was Ralph Macchio’s guitar double and coach. Many of these arrangements have been published by GSP, Gendai Guitar, and Doberman Editions. As a found-ing member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, William Kanengiser tours extensively throughout North America, Asia, and Europe, and has recorded for the GHA, Delos, and Sony Classical labels. Their 2001 Telarc release, LAGQ: Latin, was nominated for a Grammy, and their follow-up recording LAGQ’s Guitar Heroes won a Grammy for Best Classical Crossover Album of 2004. The latest release, Spin, features an original composition by Mr. Kanengiser for four guitars, “Turn to the Sea.” LAGQ re-cently released a live concert DVD for Mel Bay Publications, LAGQ LIVE!, and will record a CD of Brazilian music with jazz singer Luciana Souza in 2007. Mr. Kanengiser won First Prize of the 1987 Concert Artists Guild Competition as well as major international competitions in Toronto (1981) and Paris (1983). The recipient of two Solo Recitalist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, he was also chosen as one of Musical America’s Outstanding Young Artists. A member of the guitar faculty at the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles since 1983, he has given master classes at conservatories and guitar festivals around the world.

Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Orange, NJ Schools Attended: University of Southern Cali-fornia (USC) Teachers: Malcom Hamilton, Pepe Romero, James Smith University Currently Teaching: USC 1983 Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? No How many recordings? 12 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Yes, 2004 Outstanding Achievements: founding member of the LAGC (Los Angeles Guitar Quartet)


Scott Tennant Websites: www.scotttenant.com

Scott Tennant is a founding member of the Grammy®-winning ensemble L.A. Gui-tar Quartet, and is himself considered to be one of the world’s top classical guitar-ists. Mr. Tennant has authored several books and articles on guitar technique, in-cluding his best-seller Pumping Nylon, which has attained a “cult” classic status. He has made numerous recordings as a soloist on the GHA and Delos labels, and with the LAGQ he has recorded for GHA, Delos, Sony Classical, Windham Hill, Deutsche Grammophon and Telarc labels. Their Telarc release “LAGQ Latin”was nominated for a Grammy®, and it was their current Telarc title “LAGQ’s Guitar Heroes” which won a Grammy® as the best classical crossover recording of 2005. He is well-known for his recordings of the music of Joaquín Rodrigo, and equally praised for his interpretations of the music from the renaissance and classical periods. Upcom-ing projects include a five-volume classical guitar method, a recording/tribute to the late maestro Andrés Segovia, as well as instructional videos on advanced guitar techniques. He lives in Pasadena, and is on the faculty at the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, California. and classical periods. Upcoming projects include a five-volume classical guitar method, a recording/tribute to the late

Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Schools Attended: Teachers: University Cur-rently Teaching: University of Southern Califor-nia (USC) Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? Yes How many recordings? 12 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Yes, 2005 Outstanding Achievements: founding member of the LAGC (Los Angeles Guitar Quartet)


Martha Masters Websites: www.marthamasters.com

Martha Masters is quickly becoming one of the most sought-after guitarists of her generation, being described as "artful, virtuosic and sophisticated," (Palos Verdes Peninsula News) with "poise, maturity and clean technique" (San Antonio Express-News). In October of 2000 Martha won first prize in the Guitar Foundation of Amer-ica (GFA) International Solo Competition, including a recording contract with Naxos, a concert video with Mel Bay, and an extensive North American concert tour. In No-vember of 2000, she also won the Andrés Segovia International Guitar Competition in Linares, Spain and was a finalist in the Alexandre Tansman International Compe-tition of Musical Personalities in Lodz, Poland. Prior to 2000, Martha was a prizewin-ner or finalist in numerous other international competitions, including the 1999 Inter-national Guitar Competition "Paco Santiago Marín" in Granada, Spain, the 1998 To-kyo International Guitar Competition and the 1997 GFA International Solo Competi-tion. Currently, Martha is on the guitar faculty at Loyola Marymount University in Los An-geles. She received both the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Pea-body Conservatory, where she studied with Manuel Barrueco, and completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Southern California as a student of Scott Tennant.

Date of Birth: 1976 Place of Birth: Ohio Schools Attended: Peabody, USC Teachers: Manuel Barruecco, Scott Tenant University Currently Teaching: Loyola Mary-mount University in Los Angeles, CA Won the following Competitions: GFA 2000 Mentions Andre Segovia? No How many recordings? 6 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements: won the Andrés Segovia International Guitar Competition in Linares, Spain & Alexandre Tansman Interna-tional Competition of Musical Personalities in Lodz, Poland


Brian Head Websites: www.usc.edu/schools/music/private/faculty/head.php

Brian Head, senior lecturer, classical guitar and composition, was voted Out-standing Thornton School Graduate of 1991. Mr. Head was chosen in 1999 as the USC Gamma Sigma Alpha Professor of the Year. He is sought after as an ensem-ble guitarist performing in numerous chamber and symphonic groups including XTET, Ten-String Music and the New World Symphony. His compositions are pub-lished by Alfred Music and Guitar Solo Publications, and have been recorded on Delos, Denon, Digital Revolution, GSP Recordings and Massax Productions. His music has been performed throughout the U.S. in venues including Merkin Hall in New York, the Ambassador Auditorium in Los Angeles and the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, as well as abroad in Tokyo, Madrid, Sao Paulo and Dubai.

Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Schools Attended: University of Southern Cali-fornia (USC) Teachers: University Currently Teaching: University of Southern California (USC) Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? No How many recordings? Currently touring? Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements: President of the Guitar Foundation of America


Dusan Bogdanovic Websites: www.dusanbogdanovic.com www.wikipedia.org

Dušan Bogdanović born 1955 is a Serbian-born American composer and classical guitarist. He has explored musical languages which are reflected in his style today: a unique synthesis of classical, jazz and ethnic music. As a soloist and in collabora-tion with other artists, Bogdanović has toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia, Japan and the United States. Dušan Bogdanović's recording credits include twelve albums (on Essay, Sony Global Pacific, M. A. Recordings, Concord Concerto and other labels), ranging from Bach Trio Sonatas to contemporary works. His composi-tions are published by Bèrben Editions [1] (Italy), Doberman-Yppan (Canada) and Guitar Solo publications [2] (San Francisco). Bogdanović was born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1955. He completed his studies in com-position and orchestration at the Geneva Conservatory with Pierre Wissmer and Al-berto Ginastera, and in guitar performance with Maria Livia São Marcos. Early in his career, he received the only First Prize at the Geneva Competition, and gave a highly acclaimed debut recital in Carnegie Hall in 1977. He has taught at the Ge-neva Conservatory and the University of Southern California and is currently at the San Francisco Conservatory. A richly gifted composer, improviser and guitarist, Du-san Bogdanovic has explored musical languages that are reflected in his style to-day- a unique synthesis of classical, jazz and ethnic music. He completed his stud-ies of composition and orchestration at the Geneva Conservatory with P. Wissmer and A. Ginastera and in guitar performance with M.L.São Marcos. Early in his ca-reer, he received the only First Prize at the Geneva Competition and gave a highly acclaimed debut recital in Carnegie Hall in 1977. He has taught at the Geneva Con-servatory and the University of Southern California and is presently engaged by the

Date of Birth: 1955 Place of Birth: Belgrade, Serbia Schools Attended: Geneva Conservatory, Uni-versity of Southern California (USC) Teachers: Maria Sao Marcos University Currently Teaching: San Francisco Conservatory Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? How many recordings? 30 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements:


Leo Brouwer Websites: www.wikipedia.org www.musicweb.uk.net/brouwer/

Brouwer was born in Havana, and went to the United States to study music at the University of Hartford and later at the Juilliard School, where he was taught compo-sition by Stefan Wolpe. Brouwer has held a number of official posts in Cuba, includ-ing the directorship of the Cinema Institute of Cuba's music department. Among his works are a large number of solo guitar pieces, several guitar concertos and over forty film scores. Leo Brouwer is involved in the "Concurso y Festival Internacional de Guitarra de la Habana" (International Guitar Festival of the Havana). He started to play the guitar at the age of 13, drawn to it by the sounds of Flamenco and en-couraged by this father, a doctor and himself an amateur guitarist. His first real teacher was Isaac Nicola who was a pupil of Emilo Pujol (1886-1980) who in turn had been a pupil of Francesco Tárrega (1852-1909). Brouwer wrote early in his ca-reer Etudes Simples"Nos 1 – 20 (simple studies). New students of the guitar should beware of the title,"simple" they are not!.With these studies Brouwer has undoubt-edly produced a major work in the development of guitar technique, making them not only demanding but also very musical. As a prominent figure of the guitar, Brou-wer is often in demand as a Jury member at Guitar competitions all over the world. These often require him to conduct masterclasses and performance workshops. He has served as General Manager of the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra for ten years and since 1992 conducted the Córdoba Orchestra in Spain. In 1998 Brou-wer was awarded the Manuel de Falla prize and in 1999 the National music prize for Cuba. In recent years, Brouwer has continued his unique series of guitar concertos (Concierto No.7 "La Habana", Concierto No.8 "Concierto Cantata de Perugia", and "Concierto de Benicassim") as well as writing for a rich variety of other ensembles, most notably his horn trio of 2002, PICTURES OF ANOTHER EXHIBITION. His lat-est concerto for guitar is his DOUBLE CONCERTO (Book of Signs), premiered by John Williams and Costas Cotsiolis on 27th January 2004 at the Megaron in Athens. Leo Brouwer has now returned to live in Havana.

Date of Birth: March 1, 1939 Place of Birth: Havana, Cuba Schools Attended: University of Hartford, Julli-ard School of Music Teachers: Stefan Wolpe, Isaac Nicola University Currently Teaching: Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? How many recordings? 16 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements: Director of the Cinema Institute of Cuba’s Music Department


Bruce Holzman Websites: www.music.fsu.edu/holzman.htm

BRUCE HOLZMAN, Professor of Guitar at the Florida State University has been Di-rector of the Guitar Program since 1972. Holzman's students have won many pres-tigious prizes in competitions worldwide. Professor Holzman has been on the Art-ists' Faculties of The Iserlohn International Guitar Symposium, Germany, Stetson In-ternational Guitar Workshop, Columbus States Guitar Symposium, Domaine Forget Academie of Music and Dance, Quebec, Canada, National Guitar Summer Work-shop, New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes, Boston Guitarfest, and Toronto Guitar-fest. He has been an adjudicator for the following competitions, among others: The International Competition of the Ard, Germany, Iserlohn International Guitar Compe-tition, Guitar Foundation of America, The Boston Guitarfest International Competi-tion, The Domaine Forget Guitar Competition, The Schadt String Concerto Competi-tion, The Joanne Falletta Concerto Competition, and the Columbus State University Guitar Symposium Competition. Bruce Holzman was awarded a special Lifetime Achievement award at the Fifth New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes held in his honor, "El Maestro/Tradition of the Masters."

Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Schools Attended: Teachers: University Currently Teaching: Florida State University 1972 Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? No How many recordings? Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements: was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 5th New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes


Adam Holzman Websites: www.adamholzman.net www.wikipedia.org

For more than twenty years, Adam Holzman, recording artist, concert performer, soloist and educator, has been at the forefront of a generation of guitarists. Born in New York City in 1960 Adam began the guitar at the age of 7 as a student of his older brother Bruce and continued his private study with Albert Valdes Blain and Eliot Fisk. He returned to work with his older brother Bruce Holzman at Florida State University where he received his Musical Degrees. In addition he studied in the master classes of Oscar Ghiglia in Siena at the Academia Musicale de Chigiana and at the Aspen music festival. Twice he was chosen to perform in the historic master classes of the legendary Andres Segovia. Mr. Holzman’s commitment to new mu-sic has led him to co-commission Samuel Adler’s First Concerto for Guitar and Or-chestra. He was the first person to perform the music of Roland Dyens in North America and he has also premiered works by composers Robert Helps and Stephen Funk Pearson. Adam Holzman is founder of the Guitar Department at the University of Texas at Austin where, in addition to his active performing career, he heads a thriving guitar studio. From 1992-1994 Mr. Holzman held the title of “Maestro Extraordinario” given by the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico, where he served as artist-in-residence. In 2001, Adam Holzman was awarded the Ernst von Doh-nanyi Prize for Outstanding Achievement from Florida State University and the Robert W. Hamilton Fine Arts Award from the University of Texas.

Date of Birth: 1960 Place of Birth: New York, NY Schools Attended: Florida State University Teachers: Bruce Holzman, Albert Blaine, Eliot Fisk, Oscar Ghiglia, Andre Segovia University Currently Teaching: University of Texas-Austin Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? Yes How many recordings? 8 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? 1983 Outstanding Achievements: was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 5th New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes


Thomas Patterson Websites: www.cfa.arizona.edu www.guitarteachermagazine.com

Prof. Patterson enjoys an active performance schedule, giving recitals to critical ac-claim throughout North America. Recent performances have taken him to the Peo-ples Republic of China, Brazil, Columbia, Mexico and Italy. Since joining the Univer-sity of Arizona faculty in 1980, he has received international acclaim for his direction of the guitar program. Mr. Patterson studied with many of the world's leading teach-ers including Abel Carlevaro, Oscar Ghiglia and David Russell. He has been the re-cipient of numerous prizes and awards, including fellowships with the Tinker and Kellogg Foundations. The Tinker Fellowship supported performances in South America, where he also studied South American music with Carlevaro in Uruguay and Antonio Lauro in Venezuela, and Brazilian music at the Museu Villa-Lobos in Rio de Janeiro.

Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Schools Attended: Teachers: Abel Carlevaro, Oscar Ghiglia, David Russell University Currently Teaching: University of Arizona in Tuscon, AZ since 1980 Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? How many recordings? 16 Currently touring? Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements:


Mike Christiansen Websites: www.usu.edu/music/faculty www.melbay.com/authors

Mike Christiansen is a Professor of Music and Director of Guitar Studies in the Mu-sic Department at Utah State University. In 1994, Mike was selected as "Professor of the Year" at Utah State University. He has taught workshops at many schools, in-cluding MI in Hollywood. He averages over 130 performances annually as a soloist, with the group Mirage, and with Lightwood Duo. Mike is the author of twenty-two books (twenty of which have been published by Mel Bay Publications), has recorded sixteen CDs, and appears on eleven instructional videos. His books are distributed internationally. Mike is the co-author of the books, Mastering the Guitar which re-ceived the 1997 Best New Print Publication award from Music and Sound Retailer Magazine. In 1997, Mike's video, Guitar Basics, was awarded the ITA Platinum Video Award. Guitar Basics was also selected as Music and Sound Retailer Maga-zine's #1 instructional video for 1996. Mike has also published several magazine ar-ticles including Acoustic Guitar and Soundboard. He has been a back-up musician on several recordings and has recorded music for television and films. Mike has re-cently released a new CD with the "Lightwood Duo" entitled "Requests."

Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Schools Attended: Teachers: University Currently Teaching: Utah State University in Logan, UT Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? How many recordings? 16 Currently touring? Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements: Author of 22 books for Mel Bay as well as 14 instructional videos


Frank Koonce Websites: www.frankkoonce.com

Frank Koonce is internationally acclaimed as a performer, teacher, and writer. He holds degrees from the North Carolina School of the Arts and from Southern Meth-odist University, studying first with Jesús Silva and then with Robert Guthrie. In 1974-75, he was a Fulbright Scholar and performer in Italy where he studied with Sergio Notaro and Alirio Diaz. Mr. Koonce's creative output includes an authoritative guitar edition of Johann Sebastian Bach's complete solo lute works and the world-premiere recording in English of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's "Platero and I" for narrator and guitar (Summit, DCD 1002). He has also recorded an album entitled "A Southwest Christmas" with the Phoenix Bach Choir (Soundset, SR 1005) and is fea-tured in a live concert video with the renowned composer/guitarist, Nikita Koshkin (Mel Bay 99231VX). As a founding partner of Soundset Recordings he has helped produce other classical compact discs, including a premiere recording of works by Alan Hovhaness with the Korean Broadcasting System Symphony Orchestra and the first two recordings of Nikita Koshkin. A Professor of Music, Frank Koonce has directed the guitar program at Arizona State University since 1978. He was Director of "Guitar Festival 1987" an interna-tional event jointly sponsored by the Guitar Foundation of America and the Ameri-can String Teachers Association, and has since served as Chair the GFA Advisory Board. He is an active performer, with recitals to his credit in England, Korea, Mace-donia, Taiwan, China, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Mexico, Spain, The Czech Repub-lic, Austria, and throughout the United States.

Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Schools Attended: Southern Methodist Univer-sity (SMU in Dallas,TX) and North Carolina School of the Arts Teachers: Robert Guthrie, Jesus Silva, Sergio Notaro, Alirio Diaz University Currently Teaching: Arizona State University since 1978 Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? How many recordings? 3 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements: Fulbright Scholar


Michael Chapdelaine Websites: www.guitar-abq.org/events www.michaelchapdelaine.com

Only one person has ever won the world's top competitions in both "fingerstyle" and "classical" guitar, the 1998 National Fingerpicking Champion and the Guitar Foun-dation of America International Classical Guitar Competition. Prior to winning the Championship, Chapdelaine had also won top honors in four international “classical” guitar competitions, including First Prize in the Guitar Foundation of America Com-petition. He has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Fellowships and holds a Master of Music degree from Florida State University. In recent years he has toured 4 continents and been seen around the world on CNN and Headline News. Chapdelaine, who studied with Andrés Segovia, earned the distinction of winning the 20th annual National Fingerpicking Championship, tradi-tionally dominated by steel string players, while playing on a nylon string classical guitar. He bested an international field of guitarist by playing a broad spectrum of musical genres ranging from traditional South American dance music to his own fingerstyle compositions, which included a blues number he calls Blue Chile. "The biggest thrill about winning Winfield was seeing how much people like my original compositions," Chapdelaine said. His original works, which he has only recently in-troduced to the public, bring together a broad variety of musical styles from classical to country to blues. "I grew up playing pop music in Navy clubs....I needed to find a way to mix the groove and fun of that music with the discipline and expressive beauty of classical music." “Music is fun, if it's not fun, why bother?”

Date of Birth: 1956 Place of Birth: San Diego, CA Schools Attended: Florida State University Teachers: Andre Segovia, Bruce Holzman University Currently Teaching: University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM Won the following Competitions: GFA in 1982 and the National Fingerpicking Champion-ship Mentions Andre Segovia? Yes How many recordings? 5 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements: The only person in the world to win the GFA and National Finger-picking Championship


Robert Guthrie

Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Schools Attended: Teachers: University Currently Teaching: Southern Methodist University-Dallas, TX Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? Yes How many recordings? Currently Touring? Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements:

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Originally self-taught, Texas-born guitarist Robert Guthrie won scholarships for worldwide study with masters such as Andres Segovia, Alirio Diaz, Jose Tomas, and Jesus Silva. His concert appearances have taken him to every state in the U.S. and throughout Mexico, Italy, Spain, and Venezuela. He has made recordings for NPR and PBS, which produced a documentary on his performing and teaching. He has given over 100 guest master classes in the U.S. and Mexico and has been fac-ulty artist of the Aspen Music Festival, the Boston Conservatory, Queens College, and Yale University. He currently heads the guitar program at Southern Methodist University in Dallas where his students are frequently competition winners. Mr. Guthrie, the recipient of the 1995 Teacher of the Year award from the Dallas Classi-cal Guitar Society, also pursues a busy concert schedule. His repertoire covers the history of his instrument from the sixteenth century to present day, with a special emphasis on the music of Spain and South America. Guthrie studied with Andrés Segovia and Jesus Silva at the North Carolina School of the Arts. He has toured throughout the United States, Spain and Latin America and has taught at Yale Uni-versity, the Boston Conservatory and Southern Methodist University.


David Tanenbaum Websites: www.wikipedia.org www.davidtanenbaum.com

David Tanenbaum is one of the most admired classical guitarists of his generation. He has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Australia, the former Soviet Union and Asia, and in 1988 he became the first American guitar-ist to be invited to perform in China by the Chinese government. David Ta-nenbaum's three dozen recordings, which reflect his broad repertoire interests, can be found on New Albion, EMI, Nonesuch, Ars Musici, Rhino, GSP, Albany, Audio-fon, Bayer, Acoustic Music Records, Bridge, Stradivarius and others. David Ta-nenbaum is currently Chair of the Guitar Department at the San Francisco Conser-vatory of Music, where he received the 1995 Oustanding Professor Award, and he has been Artist-In-Residence at the Manhattan School of Music. David Tanenbaum studied guitar with Rolando Valdez-Blain, Aaron Shearer and Michael Lorimer, at-tending the San Francisco Conservatory and Peabody Conservatory. Further stud-ies included work with pianist Jeanne Stark-Iochmans and harpsichordist Laurette Goldberg. He participated in the 1981 New York master class with Andres Segovia.

Date of Birth: 1956 Place of Birth: Schools Attended: San Francisco Conserva-tory, Peabody Conservatory Teachers: Rolando Valdez-Blain, Aaron Shearer, Michael Lorimer University Currently Teaching: San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Artist-in-Residence at the Manhattan School of Music Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? How many recordings? 36 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements:


Stanley Yates Websites: www.cgse.org/artist www.stanleyyates.com

Stanley Yates is a British-born guitar virtuoso with an international reputation. A performer, recording artist and teacher, he is also a widely published arranger and scholar. He is professor of guitar at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN. He has won many renowned competitions, including the Myra Hess in London, The Volos International Competition in Greece, and the annual Guitar Foundation of America Competition. He has degrees from Trinity College, Sandown College of Performing Arts, and graduate degrees from the University of Liverpool and the Uni-versity of North Texas. He has written a series of guitar books published by Mel Bay. These include studies, repertoire, arrangements and transcriptions. Stanley received performer's diplomas from Trinity College, London, and Sandown College of Performing Arts, Liverpool (where he graduated with the highest pass in the history of the college). He also received post-graduate degrees from the Univer-sity of Liverpool (with a distinction in performance) and the University of North Texas (where he was the only non-pianist ever to receive the Morgan Dissertation Award for Excellence in Music Performance). Now a resident of the United States, he cur-rently directs the guitar program at Austin Peay State University, home of Tennes-see's Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts.

Date of Birth: 1958 Place of Birth: England Schools Attended: Trinity College, Sandown College of the Performing Arts, University of Liv-erpool, University of North Texas Teachers: University Currently Teaching: Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? How many recordings? 2 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements:


Benjamin Verdery

Date of Birth: 1954 Place of Birth: New York, NY Schools Attended: Teachers: University Currently Teaching: Yale Univer-sity Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? How many recordings? 15 Currently Touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements:

Websites: www.benjaminverdery.com

Benjamin has released over 15 albums, his most recent, Branches (Mushkatweek) features arrangements of works by Bach, Mozart, Strauss, Hendrix and the tradi-tional Amazing Grace. His recording, Start Now (Mushkatweek), won the 2005 Clas-sical Recording Foundation Award. Since 1985, Benjamin has been chair of the guitar department at the Yale University School of Music. In addition to his solo tours, recording and teaching Benjamin performs with guitarist Bill Coulter (Bill and Ben), his ensemble Ufonia and with flutist Rie Schmidt (Schmidt/Verdery Duo). Ben-jamin Verdery is Artistic Director of the Yale Guitar Extravaganza, a one-day guitar conference featuring guitarists and artists in concert and lectures; and, of the Art and the Guitar series at the 92nd St Y (New York City). Mr. Verdery will hold his 9th Annual International Master Class on the Island of Maui (Hawaii), in August 2007 and is Honorary board member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas, Inc. A prolific composer, many of Benjamin Verdery's compositions have been performed and published over the years.


Jason Vieaux Websites: www.jasonvieaux.com

Jason Vieaux has eight recordings to his credit and many more to come with his multi-record deal with Azica Records. His latest release, Images of Metheny, is a disc of music by American Jazz guitarist/composer Pat Metheny. Sevilla: The Mu-sic of Isaac Albeniz, was rated one of the Top Ten Classical CDs of 2003 by The Philadelphia Inquirer and Cleveland’s Plain Dealer. Jason Vieaux began guitar studies at age eight with Jeremy Sparks in Buffalo, New York, and continued study at The Cleveland Institute of Music with John Holmquist. He is the youngest First Prize winner in the history of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America Interna-tional Competition, a Naumburg International Guitar Competition prizewinner, and a recipient of The Cleveland Institute of Music's Alumni Achievement Award. In 1995, Mr. Vieaux was honored as an Artistic Ambassador of the United States to South-east Asia, concertizing in Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar (Burma). He has also toured Europe, Mexico, Canada, the Far East, Aus-tralia and New Zealand. Aside from his duties as a performer, Mr. Vieaux is highly dedicated to the art of teaching. He currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio, where he is Head of the Cleveland Institute of Music Guitar Department, making him the young-est Department Head to serve at the prestigious conservatory. He is also affiliated with Philadelphia-based Astral Artistic Services.

Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Buffalo, NY Schools Attended: Cleveland Institute of Music Teachers: Jeremy Sparks, John Holmquist University Currently Teaching: Cleveland In-stitute of Music Won the following Competitions: GFA 1992 Mentions Andre Segovia? No How many recordings? 8 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements: the youngest GFA winner in history


Ana Vidovic Websites: www.anavidovic.com www.cgse.org/artist www.wikipedia.org

Ana Vidović Ana Vidovic is one of the youngest virtuoso guitarists in the world. She was born in 1980, in Karlovac near Zagreb, Croatia and started playing guitar at the age of 5, inspired by her brother Viktor. By the age of 11 she was performing in-ternationally, and at 13 became the youngest student to attend the prestigious Na-tional Musical Academy in Zagreb where she studied with Professor Istvan Romer. Vidović's reputation in Europe led to an invitation to study at the Peabody Conserva-tory in Baltimore, USA, with Manuel Barrueco, from where she graduated in May 2003. Vidović has won an impressive number of prizes and international competitions all over the world. These include first prizes in the Albert Augustine International Com-petition in Bath, England, the Fernando Sor competition in Rome, Italy, and the Francisco Tárrega competition in Benicasim, Spain. Other top prizes include the Eurovision Competition for Young Artists, the Mauro Giuliani competition in Italy, the Printemps de la Guitare in Belgium, and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York. Ana Vidović has given over one thousand public performances since first taking the stage in 1988. Her international performance career includes recitals in London, Paris, Vienna, Salzburg, Rome, Budapest, China, Warsaw, Tel Aviv, Oslo, Copen-hagen, Toronto, Baltimore, San Francisco, Knoxville, Houston, Austin, Dallas, and St. Louis.

Date of Birth: 1980 Place of Birth: Karlovac, Croatia Schools Attended: Peabody Conservative Teachers: Manuel Barruecco University Currently Teaching: Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? No How many recordings? 6 Currently touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Outstanding Achievements: the youngest gui-tarist in history to study at the National Musical Academy in Zagreb


Adam del Monte

Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Schools Attended: Royal Northern College of Music Teachers: Paco Cortez, Gordon Crosskey University Currently Teaching: University of Southern California Won the following Competitions: Mentions Andre Segovia? How many recordings? 5 Currently Touring? Yes Grammy Award Winner? Yes Outstanding Achievements: First Prize Win-ner of the 1997 Stotsenburg International Classic Guitar Competition

Websites: www.adamdelmonte.com

Adam del Monte, adjunct assistant professor, has been on the faculty of the Thorn-ton studio jazz guitar department since 2002, teaching flamenco and coaching the World Guitar Ensemble. Del Monte was both influenced by and inspired the younger generation of flamenco performers who were beginning to depart from the previous virtual space of Spanish flamenco. Del Monte, too, set out in new directions, inte-grating years of traditional and leading-edge flamenco training, as well as expanding his musicianship on the classical guitar. An eclectic awareness of jazz, world music and other contemporary forms led to new, creative renditions of flamenco repertoire. He has been commissioned by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet to compose a pro-gressive flamenco piece entitled Cambio de Aire. He has collaborated with Yusef Lateef and the Atlanta Symphony at the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, Georgia. His flamenco debut CD on the Spanish label Sonifolk (1998), Viaje a Un Nuevo Mundo (Journey to a New World), was favorably reviewed by Spain's most acclaimed flamenco critic Angel Alvarez Caballero as well as Miguel Mora of El Pais and Alfredo Grimaldos of El Mundo. Other discographies include: A Mel Bay Artist Video Series, A Classical and Flamenco Recital and a GSP classical CD entitled EZORDIO. Adam del Monte plays a flamenco and classical guitar by Francisco Manuel Diaz, Granada, Spain, and a guitar by Boaz Elkayam, Israel.


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