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Barbara Wayne
Craig Green
Daniel Pinilla
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Canadian-born Barbara Wayne has studied with some of the best classical guitar performers and teachers in Canada, Europe and the United States, including Robert Guthrie, John Duarte, David Russell and Eli Kassner. With two Master of Music degrees in Classical Guitar Performance and Music Theory from Southern Methodist University, she has taught in Canada, Dallas, Texas and, for the last 25 years, at Brigham Young University-Idaho and in her Idaho Falls studio.
Barbara has performed as a soloist, with other instrumentalists and in numerous ensembles, most recently accompanying the tenor Alfie Boe (Jean Valjean in the London production of Les Miserables) in concerts at Sun Valley and for the BYU-Idaho CenterStage series. She has been regularly biographied in the Marquis Who’s Who in America.
Barbara is available to teach and perform, as well as to write and arrange music for the classical guitar.
Daniel Pinilla, D.M.A., is the guitar professor at the Lionel Hampton School of Music-University of Idaho. He has released two albums under his name Intuiciones (FLD, 2011) and Atrás (2011), and has participated as composer, arranger, and guitarist in many other musical productions. His original work received different critics and reviews, including the December 2012 number of the NYC Jazz Record. Pinilla has more than ten years of performance, recording, and teaching activity in the US and Latin America. His touring experience includes performing with the Colombian National Symphony, the seven-time Grammy® nominated UNT. One O’Clock Lab Band, the #1 in the Latin American Billboard Charts singer Carlos Rivera, and the Daniel Pinilla Quartet, among others.
Dr. Pinilla's original music material is available on all streaming platforms. His collaborative composition alongside trumpeter and composer Juan Chaves’s “Not Even a Portrait,” which combines strings quartet, double bass, and guitar, was awarded DownBeat Magazine in its 40th anniversary of the Students Awards for Best Small Ensemble Composition. Moreover, Pinilla leads a social impact project in his home country, using music education as a social groundwork. In 2014 he founded You Art Important, a non-profit organization in Colombia. This project was awarded 1st prize in the Sherman/Barsanti Inspiration Award at UNT for developing a series of music workshops for children in rural Colombia during the Colombian post-conflict. This project was awarded the first $10,000 prize in the Sherman Barsanti Inspiration Award at the University of North Texas in 2017.
In 2013, Pinilla was awarded the Scholarship Jóvenes Talentos del ICETEX from the Colombian government to pursue a master’s degree in jazz studies at UNT, where he performed, toured, and recorded with the prestigious seven-time Grammy® nominated UNT One O’Clock Lab Band, where he had the opportunity, performed with guests artists such as Christian McBride, Jimmy Heath, Doc Severinsen, Marcus Miller, Chris Potter, Sean Jones, and Rashawn Ross, among many others. Before moving to the United States, Pinilla taught in different schools and universities in Bogotá, Colombia. From Fall 2015 to Spring 2019, he had a Teaching Fellowship at UNT, where he completed his Master’s and Doctoral degrees in performance—jazz studies. Pinilla has presented his scholarly work at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, The University of Idaho, the Jazz Education Network Conference (JEN), the University of North Texas Introduction to Jazz Research Class, and the International Seminar Art and Culture for the Social Transformation. Bogotá, Colombia, the First International Seminar: Theories and practices of music education. Universidad Central. Bogotá, Colombia.
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