Viaggio in Italia, Martha Masters

Martha Master began her guitar studies at the age of six and rather reverently refers to her first teacher, Jim McCutcheon, as ‘a man with a gift for teaching children’. She then studied with composer/teacher Brian Head. At the Peabody Conservatory Martha studied with Manuel Barrueco, gaining both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees. Studying with Scott Tennant at the University of Southern California she completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree. In October 2000 she won first prize in the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) International Solo Competition. In November of that same year Martha also won the Andrès Segovia International Guitar Competition in Linares, Spain, and was a finalist in the Alexandre Tansman International Competition of Musical Personalities in Lodz, Poland. Martha’s very busy schedule includes extensive masterclass/festival teaching and annual teaching at the National Guitar Workshop Classical Summit in Connecticut. In addition she heads the guitar programme at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.