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Dr. Michael Quantz
Dr. Michael Quantz
Dr. Quantz is widely known as a conductor and clinician for guitar orchestras. He has conducted the Florida Music Education Association All-State Guitar ensemble and has conducted many world premieres for music in this genre. He has enjoyed a long association as a conductor for Austin Classical Guitar’s “Guitar Ensemble Showcase” annual festival concert. He presents regular clinics for school districts across the nation, for the GFA, and for the Texas Music Educators Association conference.
Dr. Quantz later developed the classical guitar division at UT Brownsville into a dynamic award-winning program that has been recognized as one of the most accomplished and progressive in the United States. He was also the creator/director of the Brownsville Guitar Ensemble Festival and Competition which, for 15 years, drew participants from over 50 cities spanning the nation.
His students have consistently distinguished themselves as top prize winners in solo guitar competitions and his university graduates have the phenomenal professional placement rate of 100%. His guitar ensembles have toured Austria (by invitation, with performances at the US Embassy in Vienna and at the Schoenbrunn Palace), performed twice for the National Flute Association annual convention and three times for the Texas Music Educators Association convention. His students have been specially requested for performances in Austin by the Chancellor of the UT System and they have been recognized by the Texas State Legislature for performance excellence. Under Dr. Quantz’s direction, his student guitar orchestra was twice featured on the internationally syndicated “Guitar Alive!” show on National Public Radio, and this ensemble was the first of its kind invited to perform during the annual GFA convention. Dr. Quantz is currently Professor of Music at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
Dr. Michael Quantz is a pioneer in guitar ensemble curriculum and classroom education for guitar students. He is a recipient of the University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award and the University of Texas at Brownsville President’s Outstanding Teaching Award. He served as the Director of Education for the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) and he is a founding Board Member for the Texas Guitar Directors Association which began its service to music education in 2017. In addition, he was the creator and director of the GFA’s International Youth Competition and Guitar Ensemble Showcase.
Dr. Joseph Palmer
Dr. Joseph Palmer
Joseph Palmer has earned a reputation as one of the most captivating and dynamic young performers on the American guitar scene. Over the years, he has been awarded 16 prizes in international guitar competitions and has been a featured soloist throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Joseph devotes himself to sharing classical music with diverse populations and is a passionate advocate for music's potential to inspire and transform. In 2015, he joined the team at Austin Classical Guitar, and gives over 50 interactive concerts each year throughout the public schools, retirement communities, juvenile detention centers, and other communities in the greater Austin area.
As an extension of his work with ACG, Joseph is the co-creator of the world’s first classical guitar educational resource for students with blindness/visual impairment, which was launched in Summer 2018 (letsplayguitar.org).
Joseph is the guitar instructor at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. He also runs a robust private studio of young guitarists in Austin. Joseph holds three degrees in music performance; a Bachelors from Columbus State University, along with Master and Doctoral degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.
Andrea Cannon
Andrea Cannon
Andrea Cannon is an alumna of Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music Jazz Performance Program and a recipient of the Alumni Award for Outstanding Service. Post-Collegiate study includes Suzuki Method Pedagogy and Classical Guitar Performance with Robert Guthrie of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
In addition to her own award-winning Suzuki studio for students and guitar teachers, she is Professor of Guitar at Lone Star College, the Woodlands, Texas.
Performances include jazz bands and combos, solo classical guitar and chamber music at venues and festivals in the US, Canada, Latin America, and Europe.
Marc Rosenberg
Marc Rosenberg
Marc Rosenberg earned a scholarship to study classical guitar studies at the collegiate level with Chip Christ at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. After receiving his Bachelor of Music in Guitar Performance, he earned another performance scholarship to attend Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he received his Master of Music in Guitar Performance under the tutelage of Professor Jim Ferla.
Rosenberg has played in concerts throughout the USA as both a soloist and as apart of chamber groups, including a performance with a singer at an event honoring the world renowned soprano Renée Fleming. He has also participated in many competitions and masterclasses with such notable names as Pepe Romero, Roland Dyens, Dale Kavanagh, Bill Kanengiser, and Lily Afshar, to name a few.
Rosenberg completed his second Master’s Degree in Alicante, Spain, where he worked with world-renowned guitarists and lutenists David Russell, Ignacio Rodes, Hopkinson Smith, Roberto Aussel, Manuel Barrueco, Carles Trepat, and Nigel North.
Edward Grigassy
Edward Grigassy
Edward Grigassy is a guitarist, bandleader and music educator based in Houston, Texas. Mr. Grigassy studied classical guitar with virtuoso performers and teachers Adam Holzman (UT Austin), Eliot Fisk (New England Conservatory) and Gene Bertoncini (NEC). He received a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree in classical guitar performance from UT Austin (1996) and a Master of Music degree from New England Conservatory (1998). He has been teaching guitar at Bellaire High School (Houston Independent School District) since 1998.
He travels extensively, teaching and performing in schools, on stages, at festivals and at social events all over Latin America and the United States. In addition to being a guest instructor, he has organized numerous guitar workshops and festivals since 2010.
from The Bellaire H.S. Guitar Festival 2015
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