Andrew Zohn - April 2, 2004

Guitarist/Composer Andrew Zohn is widely recognized as one of America’s finer guitarists. 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. In addition to concertizing throughout North America and in Europe as a soloist, Andrew Zohn has been active as a chamber musician and orchestral soloist. 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, 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 American 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, the Campbell University Foundation for the Arts, and the East Carolina New Music Festival. 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, 30 transcriptions of the Lute Music of John Dowland, will be released through FJH Publishing in early 2004. 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 www.independentrecordings.com. Zohn’s debut recording with the Big Trio Reprise has just been recently released on Belmando Recordings (UK).

“Andrew Zohn is one of the finest guitarists of his generation” -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!” -Washington D.C. Society Newsletter.

“Brilliant and engaging.” -Soundboard Magazine

“A talented new composer [whose] compositions deserve to be heard.” “Charming and entirely convincing… More of the same please!” -Classical Guitar Magazine (London).

“The same rhythmic sensitivity as Leonhardt,” and the “intensity usually associated with Assad recordings.” -Guitarra Magazine (review of Zohn’s debut recording A Guitar Recital).