Department Recital
Thu
Dec
5
Courses Taught
Applied Lessons
Guitar Performance
Technical Training/Sight Reading Guitar
Education
JD, University of California, Berkeley
MM, Yale University
BA, Yale University
Ensembles
Pacific Guitar Ensemble, 2012–2015
Festival of Four, 1992–2002
Awards and Distinctions
Winner, Guitar Foundation of America Competition, 1989
What is your hometown?
Berkeley, CA
What are you passionate about outside of music?
Reading and eating chocolate chip cookies.
What is a favorite quote that you repeatedly tell students?
“You are never as good or as bad as you think.”
—Andy Roddick
What question do you wish students would ask sooner rather than later?
What makes them happy.
What was a turning point in your career?
Winning the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) Competition in 1989.
If you weren't a musician or teacher, what do you think you would be doing now?
Mediator.
What is your daily practice routine?
Don’t have one.
If you could play only three composers for the rest of your life, who would they be?
Bach, Chopin, and Sérgio Assad.
What are your most important collaborations?
Premiering a guitar concerto (O Saci-Pererê) by Clarice Assad.
What recordings can we hear you on?
Valseana, GSI
Music of Sor and Coste, Naxos
Music of Nazareth, Les Production d'Oz
What is your unrealized project?
There is so much more music I want to learn.
Performances with Marc Teicholz
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