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Andrew Eliot Zohn, DM
Master Class - Saturday, May 6th, 2006 at 3:00 PM
Concert -
Saturday, May 6th, 2006 at 8:00 PM
Guitarist, composer Andrew Zohn has been hailed as "one of the finest guitarists of his generation" by Anthony Morris, host of the
nationally syndicated radio program Guitar Alive. "His sensitive touch and tasteful musicality shaped each phrase in a way that was easy to understand and enjoy.
Both the aficionado and the concert performer would be moved by Zohn’s obvious command of the instrument and repertoire’...A stellar performer!" says Washington D.C. Society
Newsletter. Soundboard Magazine has described him as possessing "brilliant and engaging."
His ability on the instrument has earned prizes in five national and international competitions including the
Guitar Foundation of America International Competition, the Stotsenberg International Solo Competition, and the Music Teachers National Association Wurlitzer Artist Competition.
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addition to concertizing throughout North America and in Europe as a soloist, Andrew Zohn has been active as a chamber musician and orchestral soloist. He has been a featured artist with, among others, the New World Symphony, and the Richardson Symphony in Dallas. Recent performances include venues in Montreal, Quebec City, Washington D.C., Toronto, Houston, Tampa, and San Francisco. Zohn has been a featured artist on radio and television broadcasts nationwide, including Georgia Public Radio’s Soundscapes, and San Francisco’s public radio program Guitar Journeys.
Andrew Zohn holds a doctorate of music degree from Florida State University
where he served as a teaching assistant, a master of music from the University of Texas, and a bachelor’s degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts. Since 1999, Andrew Zohn has served on the faculty of Columbus State University, where he founded and directs the annual CSU Guitar Symposium and Competition. He also currently serves on the faculty of the Guitar
on the Mediterranean Festival in Cervo, Italy, and the Guitare Lachine festival in Canada, each summer. Dr. Zohn is a frequently invited guest artist, lecturer, adjudicator, and clinician at music festivals, seminars, and universities around North America including the Stetson
International Guitar Festival, The ECU Summer Guitar Workshop, and the Appalachian Guitar Festival. Students
of Andrew Zohn have won prizes in regional and national competitions and have been featured on the national radio program From the Top.
Beginning a career in composing in 1998, Zohn has already received
commissions for new works from La Flame Records, Canada, and the Campbell University Foundation for the Arts. Original compositions by Andrew Zohn are published through Les Productions d’ Oz, Canada. Zohn has published arrangements through Tuscany publications (Theodore Presser), and his new work of 30
transcriptions of the Lute Music of John Dowland will be released through FJH Publishing in early 2004. Classical Guitar Magazine (London) has called him a "talented new composer [whose] compositions deserve to be heard." The same publication described his arrangements as "charming and entirely convincing...More of the same please!" Selected compositions of Zohn are featured in the Royal Conservatory Guitar Series (Frederick Harris Music). Andrew Zohn’s debut recording, A
GUITAR RECITAL, is made available through classicalguitarstudio.com. Guitarra Magazine has described this recording as having "the same rhythmic sensitivity as Leonhardt," and the "intensity usually associated with Assad recordings." Zohn’s debut recording with the Big Trio Reprise has just been recently released on Belmando Recordings (UK).
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