Jorge Torres Classical Guitarist from Easton, PA

With over thirty years of performing experience, Jorge Torres has performed throughout North America and in Central America in a wide variety of engagements ranging from wedding receptions to concert hall recitals. His performance repertoire consists of an eclectic mix of Classical, Spanish, Latin American, and other world music repertories, including Haitian and Irish music for the guitar. He can also perform beautiful arrangements of popular music on the guitar. (See the sample song list) His teachers include Don Amori at the Los Angeles School of Music and Art, and Stuart Fox at California Institute of the Arts, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music. In 1984 he attended the Banff Centre for the Arts and studied guitar with Oscar Ghiglia. He later studied guitar with David Grimes at California State University, Fullerton, where he also studied musicology and music theory. Jorge also holds a PhD in Musicology from Cornell University. Jorge has released a recording with flutist Rebecca Stuhr, Music for Flute and Guitar for Centaur Records (CRC 2839) in 2007. With Stuhr, he has also released an arrangement of Erik Satie's Six Gnossiennes for Flute and Guitar for Trillenium Music (2007). He has taught at St. Lawrence University and Grinnell College, and he is currently Associate Professor of Music at Lafayette College, where he teaches courses in music history and world music, as well as (of course) guitar.