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Adam Ray

Adam Ray is a multi-instrumentalist, educator and composer. He began his professional music career a

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Aki Ishiguro

Aki Ishiguro has been playing and practicing for more than 11 years. He still remembers the first le

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Alec Goldfarb

Alec Goldfarb is a Brooklyn based composer, guitarist, and Hindustani classical musician. He perform

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Anthony Hollock

Anthony has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, London’s West End, as well as various theaters arou

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Ben Fitts

Ben grew up with New York City Guitar School. After studying with NYCGS in camps and lessons, Ben be

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Clayton Hopkins

Clayton Hopkins is a NYC/NJ based guitarist, songwriter, and singer. He studied Music Engineering, P

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Curtis Brewer

American guitarist Curtis Brewer educates in diverse styles ranging from riff-heavy grunge to twang-

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Dan Emery

Dan Emery is dedicated to bringing the thrill and pride of guitar playing to all who desire it. He i

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David Gonzalez

David Gonzalez has been performing and teaching classical guitar for over 30 years. He has two degre

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David Kuhn

David was born in Nashville, TN (Go Titans!) and began playing guitar at age 12. He holds a BFA in J

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Dylan Charles

Dylan Charles was so excited when he got his first guitar at age thirteen, he started waking up ext

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Elaine Chu

Before she found NYC Guitar School, Elaine graduated with a degree in psychology from NYU and held a

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Eliane Delage

Eliane Delage has been playing the guitar since the early 80's when she started learning the guitar

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Emilio Tostado

A Chicago native, Emilio picked up a guitar at the age of 12 with his dad at a local music store. Fu

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Emily Kay Shrader

Born and raised in Northern California, Emily discovered her love for music when she began to sing &

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Eoin O’Mara

Eoin O’Mara is a guitarist and composer based in New York City. He began his musical career th

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Eric Thachuk

Eric is joining us from Hamilton, Canada. This is his second stint making America “home”. The first

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Gaby Pilagonia

Gabrielle is a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from the Bronx who has been gigging as a

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George Schatzlein

George is a musician, composer, and sound engineer based in Queens, NY. Originally from Indianapolis

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Greg Sardella

Born and raised in the outskirts of New York City, Greg began studying music at an early age into hi

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Hector Marin

Hector Marin joins the NYCGS team of amazing teachers from Costa Rica, has been playing the guitar f

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Issac Hernandez

Our Summer Camp Director, Issac Hernandez, discovered his passion for guitar as a child when his gra

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Jaime Garamella

Jaime teaches singing, guitar, and bass, and heads the Voice Studio at NYC Guitar School. Teaching a

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Jarrett Shedd

Jarrett Shedd grew up in a musical family where the guitar was used as a common accompaniment to dai

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Jasper Jagd

Jasper Jagd is a New York based musician, educator, and audio engineer. He has more than 15 years of

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Jeff McLaughlin

Guitarist Jeff McLaughlin is a composer/performer who loves teaching his students. He started playin

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Jen Elliott

Jen started out as a singer and songwriter before she found the guitar. Releasing two albums on indi

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Josh Torvi

Josh Torvi is a guitarist, teacher, and composer living in Brooklyn, NYC. He spends his time leading

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Julian Barthold

Julian Barthold first picked up the guitar at age 11 and almost instantly discovered his passion for

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Ti - one of our Suzuki early childhood certified teachers

Katty Mayorga

Katty Anna Mayorga began her guitar studies in Guatemala at the age of 6, concentrating in Latin Ame

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Koby Williamson

A graduate of Mannes College's classical guitar program, Koby has been studying the guitar for 16 ye

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Kyle Tigges

We are so pleased that we convinced the amazing Kyle Tigges to join our staff! Hundreds of students

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Lance Piebenga

A native of Vancouver, Lance made his way to Los Angeles as a studio musician before relocating to N

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Lenny Molotov

Lenny is an accomplished finger picker and applies this technique to both folk and blues. You could

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Leonid Morozov

Leonid Morozov is a fifth generation musician from Kursk, Russia. He started out by playing harmonic

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Louie Leager

Louie Leager is bassist, guitarist, and composer from Portland, OR. Since moving to New York in 2017

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Madeline Johnson

Madeline is a vocalist and educator based out of Brooklyn, NY. She developed her love of singing and

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Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson first moved to America from his hometown of London, UK in 2005 as a scholarship student

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Martin Jacobs

Martin is returning to NYC Guitar School after spending a few years back in his home state of Oklaho

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Matt Kaplan

Matt Kaplan is a classical guitarist based in New York City. He holds bachelor’s degrees of Music Ed

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Michael “Suke” Cerulo

We are so excited that Michael "Suke" Cerulo is teaching for NYC Guitar School. Suke's band Schleigo

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Michelangelo Quirinale

An expert in all things rock, Michelangelo brings over 15 years of teaching experience to the Brookl

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Myko Manzi

Myko started playing guitar as a teenage student at New York City Guitar School in 2014. Almost a de

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Olin Clark

Olin Clark is a Michigan native and current resident of Brooklyn, NY. As a composer and arranger, Ol

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Pete Matthiessen

Pete began playing the guitar when he was 11 years old. He soon began working on his calluses learni

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Rob Adler

Rob has come to us in New York City from Minneapolis, Minnesota. As a young teenager Rob became capt

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Samoa Jodha

Samoa spends most of her time making things and laughing. She has been part of NYCGS since 2009 phot

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Sean McCann

As a native New Yorker, Sean is a performing musician in multiple bands across the tri-state area. H

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Sean Saville

Sean Saville’s love for music began as he started attending and eventually organizing local DI

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Shane Chapman

Shane Chapman is the lead singer and guitarist for Brooklyn Americana band anacortes who has just re

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Shannon Mulraney

Originally from the shores of southern New Jersey, Shannon, an avid lover of live music and a musici

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Tia Vincent-Clark

Tia Vincent-Clark grew up in a family of professional musicians and began her teaching career in 199

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Tony Calabro

Tony has been playing guitar since he was a young child and teaching for over 15 years. He simply lo

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Vicky Alvarez

Vicky Alvarez is native to Asunción, Paraguay and moved to the United States in 2012. She obtained h

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Vinnie DeMasi

Vincent has been a full-time musician and teacher since 1995, and is especially patient with adult b

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