Florida Guitar Festival: Stephen Robinson and Andrew Zohn Concert

Dr.  Stephen Robinson was the first person to receive a Doctor of Music Degree in Guitar Performance from FSU and has been teaching at Stetson University in Deland, FL since 1983 as the founder and director of the guitar program. His students have gone on to excelled at some of the finest graduate programs in the country including Yale University, The Eastman School of Music, The Peabody Conservatory, and University of Southern California.
In addition to his extensive teaching, Dr. Robinson has appeared around the country performing as a recitalist, collaborative artist, and orchestral soloist. His playing has been praised as being \”effortless virtuosity\”, \”sweet, pure with technique to burn and strong sense of musical and poetic phrasing,”and \”full of virtuosity, magnificent technical precision, and a masterfully delivered diverse range of sound\”
Robinson has also released eight recordings to unanimous critical acclaim and has won first prize at five major international guitar competitions.
Robinson also performed for the incomparable Andres Segovia who called him “a magnificent guitarist, one of the most brilliant guitarists of our times.\”

American guitarist Andrew Zohn is recognized internationally for his work as a performer, instructor, and composer. He has performed concerts on five continents as a soloist and chamber musician.  In addition to extensive touring throughout the United States, recent performances include venues in China, Spain, Italy, Egypt, Malaysia, Germany, and the Netherlands.  A recent critic has said: Zohn…easily demonstrated how he is one of the most sought after performers on the classical guitar as his fingers deftly plucked some of the most subtle of tones on the instrument.– The Star, Kuala Lumpur.

Since 1999, Dr. Zohn has served on the faculty of the Schwob School of Music (Columbus State University) in Georgia, where he is the Jo and George Jeter Distinguished Chair in Guitar. He has performed and taught at many of the world’s most prestigious music festivals including the Festival of New Music (Central Conservatory of Music, China) the Guitar on the Mediterranean Guitar Festival (Italy), Sevilla Guitar Festival (Spain), Guitar Festival Changsha and Shenyang Festival (China), the Iserlohn Guitar Symposium (Germany), Borguitar Festival (Italy), the Guitar Foundation of America (USA), Festivale Emilia Romagna and Musica Ravenna (Italy), and GuitareMontreal (Canada). Students of Andrew Zohn have won prizes in dozens of international competitions including, among others, The Parkening International, The Guitar Foundation of America, The World Guitar Competition (Serbia), and The Asia International(Bangkok).   Many of his students have been also been featured on the American National Public Radio program highlighting outstanding young musical talent From the Top.

Original compositions and transcriptions by Andrew Zohn are published through Les Productions d’Oz, Canada, Tuscany publications (Theodore Presser), and FJH Publications. His recordings for Clear Note and Centaur Records have received wide acclaim from American Record Guide, Classical Guitar Magazine, GuitArt Magazine, Soundboard, Guitarra Magazine, and Rosewood Review.