Teachers

Orange County
Name & e-mail	City	Phone & web site	Notes
Payam Larijani	Irvine	(949) 786-4600 (310) 435-1705 (cell)	DMA student at Claremont Graduate University, 8 years' experience teaching classical, rock/alternative, jazz standards.
Timur Duel	Irvine	(949) 939-9060	Over 15 years' experience teaching guitar in Russia, Israel and USA. Private and studio lessons in classical guitar for all levels and ages.
David Grimes	Huntington Beach	(714) 963-8525	All levels, serious students only.
Jill Winchell	Huntington Beach	(714) 749-8001	12 years teaching experience, Bachelor's and Masters degrees in guitar performance from Cal State Fullerton. Currently teaching applied guitar and class guitar at Long Beach City College. Beginning to intermediate levels, classical guitar only. All ages.
Amy Hite	Huntington Beach, Irvine	(714) 496-6395	Masters Degree in Classical Guitar Performance from CSUF, teaching since 2003. All ages, all levels of guitar, classical, rock, and popular styles.
Larry Deack	Garden Grove	(714) 638-9485	Over twenty years' experience performing and teaching classical guitar; all levels.
Ted McKown	Orange	(714) 633-2990	Over twenty years' experience teaching flamenco, classical, and Latin American guitar. All levels. Se habla español.
John Schneiderman	Orange	(714)288-9250	Director of Guitar & Lute Program at UCI & IVC. Recording Artist with Profil & Dorian Recordings. All levels & styles
Sharan Sacks	Anaheim Hills	(714) 345-4538	Ten years' experience teaching beginning and intermediate basic acoustic and classical guitar to adults and children. Santa Ana College Community Services instructor for adult and kid's guitar classes.
David Adele	Orange	(714) 469-2892	MM in classical guitar performance from Cal State University, Fullerton., currently teaching guitar classes at Mt. San Antonio College and Santa Ana College. I have taught guitar in college since 1997 and have been performing professionally since 1990, I am also member of The Denali Guitar Duo. Classical only, all levels and ages.
Richard Turner	Fullerton	(714) 577-8045	Thirty years teaching, including 14 in the classical guitar program at CSUF. All ages and levels, classical, folk fingerpicking, beginning folk flatpicking.
Dmitry Koudymov	Fullerton, Brea, Anaheim	(714) 875-8175	Over 7 yrs. teaching experience. Offering a structured teaching environment that includes student performances, competitions, repertoire expansion, and functional musicianship. BA-CSUF, Master's-USC, Doctoral candidate at USC under Scott Tennant in classical guitar, minor in studio (jazz) guitar. All styles, levels and ages are welcome.
Lee Zimmer	Corona/Orange	(951) 751-3124	Over 25 years of teaching experience. In charge of the guitar studies programs at La Sierra and California Baptist Universities
Peter Orozco Corral	San Clemente	(949) 369-7348	Graduate of Cal State Los Angeles. All levels of classical and flamenco.
Los Angeles County
Name & e-mail	City	Phone & web site	Notes
David Isaacs	Long Beach	(562) 760-3296	MM student at CSUF with 8 years' teaching experience, all levels of classical guitar.
Michael Nigro	Long Beach	(562) 221-5430	Director of Classical Guitar Studies at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, classical only, all levels.
Jon Minei	Torrance	(310 ) 346-9818	USC grad student, studied with Bill Kanengiser, John Dearman, John Schneiderman, member of Brouwer quartet. Classical guitar only, all levels.
Keiji Tomita	West Los Angeles	(310) 837-4598	Master's degree in Classical Guitar from Cal State Northridge, five years' experience teaching classical and beginning pop guitar.
Emre Sabuncuoglu	Los Angeles, Pasadena	(888) 524-4827	20 years of teaching experience, Master of Music from New England Conservatory, DMA from USC. First prize winner in two international guitar competitions. Co-founded Los Angeles Guitar Academy (laguitar.com) where qualified students receive scholarships towards their musical education. Classical and flamenco guitar instruction for all levels
Trilogy Guitars	Playa del Rey	(310) 305-7577	We offer lessons to beginning and intermediate students in classical, fingerstyle steel string and pop. Our goal is to provide the guitarist, whether a beginner or a seasoned professional, with the basic materials needed to be a successful musician.
Almer Imamovic	Pasadena, Glendale, Los Angeles	626-434-5585	Over 15 years teaching experience, M.M. from USC studying with Scott Tennant and Pepe Romero, M.M. from Royal Welsh College with John Mills, Artist Diploma from Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Rafael Andia. All levels welcome, private and group coaching available.
Matthew Elgart	Pasadena, Altadena, Glendale, Los Angeles	(626) 664-2010	Recording artist, Director of the classical guitar department at CSULA and Caltech, 30 years of teaching experience. Extensive resume of performance and recording. Awards include the National Endowment For the Arts and the California Arts Council. Member of the Elgart/Yates Guitar Duo.
James Chiang	Diamond Bar, Rowland Heights	(909) 374-3687	Twenty years' teaching experience, beginners and intermediate, serious students only.
Carlos Atilano	Claremont	(909) 626-2227	Bachelor of Music, Boston Conservatory of Music. Composer for the classical guitar with 25 years of teaching experience. Classical guitar, beginning to intermediate levels, serious students only.
Perfecto de Castro	San Gabriel Valley	(626) 905-3916	Classical, Flamenco, Electric Blues and Rock guitar (all levels welcome). BM in Guitar Performance and Music Education, Philippine Women's University. Over 17 years experience teaching, performing and recording in the Philippines prior to relocating to Los Angeles Area
Brian Kwon	La Crescenta/Northridge	(818) 451-6161	15 years of teaching guitar at all levels and in all styles.
Kevin Greenhaw	Calimesa	(909) 795-1488	Bachelor of Music, University of Redlands, teaching since 1997. Classical and flamenco, all ages and levels of experience welcome.