Teaching Experience


Assistant Professor, Guitar Department

Berklee College of Music - Boston, MA | Jan 2022 - Present

Instructor

TrueFire | Sep 2014 - Present — Online Streaming, Downloadable & DVD Formats

Designed the curriculum and taught 8 online & streaming courses:

- Fingerstyle Rolls: Banjo Rolls for Fingerstyle Guitar | 2021

- Travis-Picking Bootcamp | 2020

- Fingerstyle Toolbox (interactive channel) | 2020 - Present

- TAKE 5: Boom Chick | 2019

- 30 Fingerpicking Patterns You MUST Know | 2019

- Essentials: Boom-Chick Fingerstyle Etudes | 2016

- The Fingerstyle Survival Guide | 2015

- The Ultimate Fingerstyle Toolbox Workshop | 2014

Instructor at Artichoke Music - Portland, OR 2012 - 2015

Online Private Instructor at Brooks Robertson Music 2010 - Present

 

Clinics, Master Classes, and Workshops Given


Guitar Sessions, Berklee College of Music - Boston, MA

Rocky Mountain Guitar Camp - Estes Park, CO

Tommy Emmanuel’s Guitar Camp USA - Carmel, CA

Tommy Emmanuel’s Guitar Camp USA - White Castle, LA

Thornton School of Music USC - Los Angeles, CA

University Of Oregon School of Music - Eugene, OR

Montana State University School of Music - Bozeman, MT

Chet Atkins Appreciation Society Convention - Nashville, TN

Freepsum International Guitar Festival - Freepsum, Germany (pictured below)

National Fiddle Festival - Weiser, ID

Irish Guitar Festival - Drogheda, Ireland

6th Annual Guitar Festival Reitberg - Reitberg, Germany

Schuettekeller - Beühl, Germany

Musikhaus Spula - Delmenhorst, Germany 

Dusty Strings - Seattle, WA


photo by Ingo Salmen

photo by Ingo Salmen