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John Schneider is the Grammy® Award winning guitarist, composer, author, and broadcaster whose weekly television and radio programs have brought the guitar into millions of homes. He holds a Ph.D. in Music & Physics from the University College Cardiff [U.K.], music degrees from the University of California and the Royal College of Music [London], and is past President of the Guitar Foundation of America. He has released over twenty CD’s and written dozens of articles on the guitar, while the newly revised & enlarged edition of his The Contemporary Guitar has become the standard text in the field. He has performed in Europe, China, Japan, Vietnam & throughout North America, and been featured by New Music America, the DaCamera Society, Southwest Chamber Music, New American Music Festival, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Other Minds, and the BBC. He is the founding artistic director of MicroFest, the contemporary music ensembles Just Strings, PARTCH Ensemble, and founder of MicroFest Records. He can be heard weekly on Pacifica Radio's The Global Village [www.KPFK.org] (more at www.JohnSchneider.LA).