Teachers

Name & e-mail	City	Phone & web site	Notes
Richard Glenn	Irvine	(949) 733-1456	Over 20 years' experience teaching lute and guitar at colleges and universities. All levels of classical & fingerstyle technique
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.
Ted McKown	Orange	(714) 633-2990	Over twenty years' experience teaching flamenco, classical, and Latin American guitar. All levels. Se habla español.
Jill Winchell	Anaheim	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.
Larry Deack	Garden Grove	(714) 638-9485	Over twenty years' experience performing and teaching classical guitar; all levels.
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.
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) 809-6818	Head of guitar department at Vanguard University. 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.
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.
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
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	(888) 524-4827	15 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
Peter Orozco Corral	San Clemente	(949) 369-7348	Graduate of Cal State Los Angeles. All levels of classical and flamenco.