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Guitar Department

Alumni

Alumni of the Jacobs School Guitar Department have an impressive record of achievements as winners of competitions and prizes, as recording artists and soloists, and as appointees at institutions worldwide. To view alumni appointments at institutions in the USA and beyond.

To read about current and former students' successes winning prizes and competitions, click here.

Alumni Appointments

Jacobs School Guitar Alumni are well-respresented throughout the United states and the world. Recent alumni appointments include:

  • Maja Radovanlija (DM candidate) teaches at the School of Music at U of Minnesota
  • Andres Saborio (MM) teaches at the University of Costa Rica, and at the Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica

  • Atanas Tzvetkov (PD-MM-DM) Director, Pre-College Guitar Program Indiana University

  • Danny Arias (MM), Professor of Guitar and Music History, Hostos College (Bronx) in New York

  • Christopher Kenniff (AD) teaches at Kean University in New Jersey

  • Jeff George (MM) teaches at  the Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette

  • Michael Nigro (BM, PD) teaches at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, California

  • Peter Curtis (DM) teaches at Riverside Community College(California)

  • Thomas Tudek (DM candidate) teaches at the UofI, Indianapolis

  • Jeremy Mayne (MM) teaches at the Univ. of New Mexico

  • Denis Azabagic (PD) teaches at the Roosevelt University ,Chicago

  • Nicholas Ciraldo (BM) teaches at the Univ. of Southern Mississippi

  • Laura Ferguson  (MM) teaches at Indiana Univ. Fort Wayne

  • Julio Ribeiro Alves (DM) teaches at Marshall University, Huntington WV

  • Brent Mc Pike (MM-DM) teaches at Indiana State Univ.

  • Marcos Cavalcanti. (DM) teaches at the Northern New Mexico College, NM

  • Cheng Sheng . (DM) teaches at the University at Taiwan

  • Petar Jankovic (MM-AD) Adjunct Lecturer at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music