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Marc Teicholz
Guitar Soloist
Marc Teicholz, classical guitarist, is the first prize-winner of the 1989 International Guitar Foundation of America competition, a winner in New York's 1991 East-West Artists competition, the 1986 Paganini competition, and a finalist in the 1992 Pro Musici competition. A member of the California Council for the Arts Touring Roster, Marc Teicholz has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, receiving critical acclaim for his recitals and master classes. Some of the major concert halls he has performed in include Los Angeles' Ambassador Auditorium, Atlanta's Spivey Hall, and Columbia's Koger Center.
Mr. Teicholz has toured Russia, Poland, and Switzerland as well as Southeast Asia, Fiji, and New Zealand under the auspices of the U.S.I.A. Artistic Ambassador program. He has appeared as a soloist with the Far Eastern Orchestra in Russia, the Metropolitan Orchestra in Lisbon, Portugal, the Cordoba Orchestra in Spain, the Santa Rosa Symphony, the Oakland Symphony, the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, and the Maui Symphony. Mr. Teicholz also tours extensively with "A Festival of Four" (a group on the Community Concerts touring roster and that records for Sugo Records.) He has recorded several solo CD's for Naxos, Sugo, and Menus and Music, as well as the pilot soundtrack for George Lucas Young Indiana Jones. He enjoys working with composers, including Andrew Imbrie and Dusan Bogdanovic, to produce new guitar literature and has premiered several new works written for him.
He is on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and at California State University at Hayward. Previously, he has taught at California State University at Sacramento as well as at the California Summer Arts Festival and the Weathersfield Music Festival in Vermont. He has been invited to give master classes all over the world. Marc Teicholz graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, 1985, received a master's degree from the Yale School of Music, 1986, and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley at the Boalt School of Law, 1990.