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