Scott W. music, Guitar, Flamenco Guitar Glendale, CA

Scott recently was a finalist and winner of the "Latin American Prize" at Boston GuitarFest 2007, an international guitar festival and competition. This coincides perfectly with his debut CD titled Un Viaje al Sur, which features solo guitar music by some of Latin America's most important composers, such as Barrios, Villa-Lobos, Ponce, Pujol, Brouwer and others. Un Viaje al Sur is due for release in March of '08. The TV show "Orale con Veronica" recently welcomed Scott as an ambassador for GuitarFest 2007 and he can be seen playing a few works from his upcoming CD during the interview.

Scott is currently pursuing a DMA in Classical Guitar at USC where he studies with Scott Tennant, author of the renowned method book Pumping Nylon and founding member of the Grammy-winning LA Guitar Quartet. Scott holds a Master's degree from the New England Conservatory of Music where he studied with Classical Guitar maestro Eliot Fisk, who Scott first met during his year-long study abroad in Granada, Spain. In Spain he studied Spanish Literature at the University of Granada and studied Flamenco Guitar with artist Yerbita. Since his time in Spain, Scott has continued his flamenco study with the amazing Grisha Goryachev and with Juanito Pascual. 

Prior to his time in Spain, Scott studied with Dr. Randy Pile at Palomar College and the University of California at San Diego while also playing in rock and punk bands in and around San Diego. 

A typical lesson usually includes a few minutes of warm-ups, often including some improvisation. Then we work on music reading or theory and any other new techniques the student should be learning. Then the remainder of the lesson is focused on the song or piece the student has chosen in the music style that they want to concentrate on.

Flamenco, Classical, rock, blues, jazz, punk

UC San Diego - Music - Guitar - 2000-2003
New England Conservatory - Music - Guitar - 2003-2006
USC - Music - Guitar - current DMA student

music, Guitar, Flamenco Guitar