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Specialties
Guitar instruction and performance in a wide variety of styles including classical, world music, jazz, fingerstyle, blues, etc. Solo guitar, guitar duets, flute and guitar, violin and guitar, guitar trios and the San Francisco Guitar Quartet.
Individual and group instruction for all ages and levels.
History
Established in 1984.
Performance and private and group instruction in Boston, Stuttgart Germany, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Phoenix, Santa Barbara and San Francisco Bay Area. Co-director of San Francisco Guitar Quartet since 1998.
Meet the Business Owner
Mark S.
Business Owner
A leading Bay Area guitarist and veteran member of the groundbreaking San Francisco Guitar Quartet, Mark Simons’s natural musicality and impressive technique have long been critically acclaimed. His diverse and engaging programming is notable for its variety, depth and color. He has presented numerous concerts, both as soloist and chamber musician throughout the U.S., as well as parts of Europe and Asia.
Mr. Simons was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in Guitar Performance to Stuttgart, Germany and received both the Outstanding Graduate and Chamber Music Departmental Awards from the University of Southern California School of Music where he was an Assistant Lecturer and Outreach Coordinator for the Guitar Department. Mark Simons holds degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music, Tufts University, The University of Southern California and the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.