San Jose Guitar Lessons

About Me

"When I go about singing, performing, or writing a song, I want to convey a message that there is something beyond your everyday worries and habits. There is this beautiful mystery within us all. I want to touch a person's spirit when I play, and I feel that music has that power.
If I am able to reach one person then I've done what I came to this world to do."
I have been performing professionally in the Bay Area and through out southern California for over 15 years. I have been teaching voice, guitar, piano and all music theory for 20 years. Some of my influences and inspirations are musicians like Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake, John Lennon, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Edith Piaf, and Sarah Vaughn just to name a few.
Having spent much of my time performing as a solo artist, I now love the company and sound of performing with my husband who is my bassist/guitarist, and with various other musicians and band mates. I have also started a company with my...

About Me

I've been teaching guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass, and songwriting for 20 years, both privately, in music stores, and through various schools and adult education. I also perform and record as a singer/songwriter, am working on my 5th CD, and lead music in churches.

I can teach all styles of music, but specialize in acoustic style folk, bluegrass, Irish, and contemporary Christian. I love to teach first time beginners as well as more advanced, and seem to be able to connect with everyone from 6 years old to 99.

I have a very personalized approach to teaching, developing the curriculum tailored to your own musical tastes, abilities, and amount you want to put into it.

I look forward to hearing from you and hopefully being able to help you live out your musical dreams!

About Me

Thanks for checking out my website. I have been playing the guitar for over twenty years, and teaching guitar for the past 16. I began my musical journey when I picked up one of my grandfather's mandolins at the age of three. Soon after, I discovered that my grandfather had a guitar in his garage. I felt naturally drawn to the guitar; as though my hands were meant to play. I taught myself until the age of twelve, when I inquired about formal lessons with a guitar teacher from my church by the name of James Garcia. I have played with a number of groups throughout the bay area, including legendary saxophonist Bob Mintzer. I hold a degree in music and have studied with teachers such as James Garcia, Rich Hawthorne, Mike McKenna, Doctor Paul Setziol, and Ron Dunn. My goal is to ensure that each student leaves every lesson a better guitar player. Whether you have been playing for a while but simply want to improve, or you are an absolute beginner contact me today to set up an...

About Me

I am a solo classical guitar performer and graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University with both Undergraduate and Masters Degrees in Guitar Performance. I have performed everything from Classical Guitar solo recitals to R&B themed fashion shows to classical arrangements of Miles Davis' Jazz legend "Kind of Blue" to internationally debuted film soundtracks. I have taught guitar for five years privately, as part of an outreach to middle school students in inner city Baltimore, to recovering alcoholics and narcotic abusers in a half-way home, and in various music schools in Maryland. I am desperately passionate about music and love to explore it in every way possible. And so I play guitar everywhere I can, I orchestrate musicals, I compose film soundtracks and try to learn everything I can about anything related to music.

I love to see the joy students experience when they realize they can create the music they want and this is what drives me to teach....

About Me

Hristo is a modern jazz guitarist/composer from Sofia, Bulgaria. Residing in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1998, Hristo has performed with some of the premier musicians in the region and has toured nationally and internationally with a wide variety of formations. He has performed guitar clinics all over Japan and Europe and has published a book on chordal development and construction entitled “Between the Voicings.” He has also published different articles on jazz improvisation. He leads the “Hristo Quartet;” an impressionistic jazz ensemble which showcases Hristo’s completely unique voice as a composer, featuring Brazilian pianist Weber Iago, drummer extraordinaire Joe De Rose, and one of the most original bassist in Northern California - Dan Robbins. Their debut record “Song for Messambria” presents a unique blend of modern jazz (ECM), classical, and Brazilian tone textures. The album received outstanding reviews by the international jazz community and it was...

About Me

After playing Clarinet for many years I decided to pick up guitar for fun, and loved it. I grew up in the Bay Area and took lessons at local music shops. It has always been my passion, my love, and my everything. I just transferred from West Valley College(Commercial Music major) to Recording Connection(majoring in Recording Arts) in San Francisco, so if you or your child wants to continue after taking lessons with me i can help find a path with music.

How I look at music is if you love it, you know it. The beat of the music is connected with your heart, the melody is what creates your soul, and the harmony is what blends everything together.