Christopher Schoelen Classical Guitarist from Boston, MA

For me, the creation of music has always been an exciting and profound mission. I continuously pursued the creation of beautiful music because there has always been something there for me which I could not let go of. It's natural beauty. In a world like todays, things move so fast and people change so quickly that sometimes it is difficult to find the time to slow down and enjoy true natural beauty. My mission as a musician was formed into this task through my long journey in the paradigm of experimenting and playing with sounds of all kinds. Although naturally, because of my quest to find the most natural sounding beauty I landed upon the medium of classical music to portray these goals and beliefs. My professional career involves performing, teaching, and recording. I have been giving musical performances since the age of 15. I have been an active teacher of guitar, bass, drums, piano, and recording equipment for over 10 years and I have experimented and built upon my own home recording studio as well. All these things I have been doing have been with one intention, to spread and portray the natural beauty of music. I give regular performances of classical guitar music in musical periods ranging from the Renaissance up to contemporary. I believe witnessing live music is a healing experience and this holds especially true for classical music. There is so much history and so many genres that are incorporated into classical music that it gives listeners so much. There is history, romance, and profoundness inside of the music from great composers of the past and present, and as the interpreter, I bring those elements to the listeners I perform for. I perform for weddings, parties, house concerts, halls, dinner occasions, romantic evenings, and birthdays.