Robert Guthrie

Adjunct Professor of Guitar

Texas-born Robert Guthrie is well known to American audiences through his hundreds of recitals and concerto performances. Mr. Guthrie has performed in virtually every major city in the United States and throughout Mexico, Italy, Spain, and Venezuela. He has made recordings for NPR which have been broadcast nationally, and PBS has produced a documentary on his performing and teaching.

Mr. Guthrie attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he studied with Andres Segovia and Jesus Silva. He was one of the first Artist-in-Residence appointments by the North Carolina Arts Council. As a member of Affiliate Artists, he gave more than 300 performances in Mississippi, Texas, and West Virginia, and is cited by that organization as one of their most successful and popular artists.

Mr. Guthrie's teaching credits include hundreds of master classes in universities and conservatories in the US and abroad. He has been a faculty member of Yale University, the Boston Conservatory, and the Aspen Music Festival. Mr. Guthrie is now head of the guitar department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where his students are frequent competition winners at local, national, and international levels.

Mr. Guthrie's repertoire covers the entire history of the guitar, from the sixteenth century to the present day, with a special emphasis on the music of Spain and Latin America and includes his own compositions. Recent activities have included a week of concerts and teaching in Balashov, Russia in May 2002, and two weeks of performing and teaching in Taos, New Mexico, in 2002.