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Phone: (626)441-4283
Fax: (626)441-5360
Alternate e-mail:
kenton@earthlink.net
Highlights of Qualifications
Over 20 years of experience teaching college-level classical and
jazz guitar
Strong secondary teaching areas: composition, theory, ensemble,
improvisation, film scoring
Expertise with notation/recording/editing/graphics software,
MIDI applications
Professional performances include: international concert tours,
television and radio appearances, concerto soloist, recitals, jazz
venues, recording sessions
Teaching Experience
Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA 2000 - Present
Music Instructor - Guitar - Classical, Jazz, Commercial
Los Angeles Community College District; ELAC, Mission 1992 -
Present
Music Instructor - Guitar - Classical, Commercial
University of Redlands, Redlands, CA 1990 - Present
Music Instructor - Guitar - Classical, Jazz, Commercial, Ensemble
Colburn School of Performing Arts, Los Angeles, CA 1979 -
Present
Music Instructor - Guitar - Classical, Jazz, Commercial, Ensemble
Cypress College, Cypress, CA 1979 -1985
Music Instructor - Guitar - Classical
Private Instruction, Los Angeles, CA 1973 - Present
Music Instructor - Guitar - Classical, Jazz, Commercial, Ensemble
Professional Experience
Falla Guitar Trio, Founding Member, Co-Producer 1979 - Present
International concert tours, recordings (debut named Record of the
Year by Stereo Review), master classes, workshops, California Arts
Council Touring Artists since 1989. Performances include the
inaugural concert of the Stotsenberg Recital Series at Pepperdine;
Guitar Congress; GFA; Dubrovnik Festival; La Guitarra California
2001; Hawaiian residency 2002; Ventura Chamber Music Festival 2003
Composer/Orchestrator/Arranger/Transcriber
Original compositions and orchestrations: Mary Pickford-A Life On
Film "An American Sweetheart" (Film Scores); Jazz ensemble: El Espejo
(TV Theme); choral works; string quartet; works for small jazz combo,
big band, guitar ensembles. Arrangements: selections from 7-Year
Zigzag (Film Score) and a comprehensive list of arrangements and
transcriptions of works by major and minor composers from antiquity
to the present, including West Side Story, the Goldberg Variations,
Mozartıs Symphony 39, Nutcracker Suite, opera selections, art songs,
lute songs, and numerous transciptions of jazz and rock solos by
various jazz and rock musicians.
Professional Musician 1974 - Present
Solo recitals (including Stotsenberg Recital Series, Music at
LACMA,
Athenaeum Concerts, Marymount College Artist Series); ensemble
concerts (with flute, voice, violin, cello, bass, harp, piano, horn,
trumpet, saxophone, guitar duo, trio, quartet, various other
combinations). Performances as soloist with orchestra including
concertos by Rodrigo (Concierto de Aranjuez with the Pepperdine
Orchestra), Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Vivaldi, Almeida, others. Jazz
performances with small combos, big bands (led an 11-piece jazz combo
for the opening of the 2001 International Film Festival in Cannes,
France). Co-founder of Mariachi Mexicapan (concerts with Ballet
Folklorico Mexicapan, and a unique live performance singing and
playing Mexican folk music on a prize-winning float in the Tournament
of Roses Parade in Pasadena , CA). Early music performances on
renaissance lute, baroque guitar. Numerous recording sessions
performing jazz, blues, rock, classical and flamenco guitar. Several
recording projects as engineer/producer using ProTools. Adjudicator,
Stotsenberg International Guitar Competition, 1997, 1999.
Professional Writer 1987 - Present
KENTON YOUNGSTROM Classical Guitar Method Book 1, 1993 Kenton
Youngstrom Publications, ASCAP; Learning to Fly Faster and Farther,
1992 Hot Licks Series, GPI Publications, 1989 FRETS magazine;
Learning to Fly, 1987 FRETS magazine.
Education
Master of Music - University of Southern California, Classical
Guitar
Performance-1982 Bachelor of Music, Magna Cum Laude- University of
Southern California, Classical Guitar Performance - 1979.
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