Guitar Lessons
The Classical Guitar Store offers lessons by the best guitar teachers in the Philadelphia area - in all styles of guitar playing; Rock, Blues, Jazz, Folk, Pop, Classical and Flamenco. With our staff of teachers we provide expert instruction in all playing styles. Each member of our staff is a professional performer of the style he or she teaches and has had long performing and teaching experience.
Lessons cost $40 per 1/2 hour.
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Michael Kennedy is a Philadelphia-based guitarist with over twenty years of experience performing, teaching and composing in a variety of musical styles and situations. Mike is a dedicated educator with experience at institutions such as The University of the Arts, where he served as Adjunct Assistant Professor and guitar department coordinator, and Rowan University.
Website: www.kennedymusic.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mkekennedy/
Bandcamp: https://mikekennedy1.bandcamp.com/
https://mikekennedy1.bandcamp.com/album/idle-afternoon
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Huck Browne is a jazz guitarist performing regularly in various venues in the Philadelphia area. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Performance from Temple University's Boyer College of Music where he studied with Greg Kettinger, Jake Kelberman and David Wong. Huck has a wide array of music interests and performs everything from modern compositions to traditional Cuban songs. He offers lessons in all styles of guitar.
To hear a demo, click here
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Dave D'Arville is a Philadelphia-based guitarist, composer and songwriter. He holds a B.Mus. in Guitar Performance from Temple University where he studied with Greg Kettinger, Peter Bernstein and Allen Krantz. Dave is available for lessons in rock, jazz and classical guitar. Check out Dave's rock band "dot.gov" here: www.dotgovmusic.com or check this out on Youtube here.
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Cassidy Beentjes studied classical guitar, composition and jazz arranging at Chetham's School of Music. He focuses much of his attention on teaching and arranging, while also performing on both the banjo and the guitar. Since 2024 he has been a member of faculty at the Blue Ridge Banjo Camp. BRBC is an annual event hosted by Béla Fleck; each year in August the faculty and campers put on a concert which culminates in the performance of large-scale banjo-orchestra arrangements which Cassidy arranges and conducts and where Béla Fleck is the soloist. Previous years have seen performances of Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin and the Bach Violin Concerto in E major. He now lives in Philadelphia, PA, having moved to the United States in 2023 after living in England for his life prior.
https://linktr.ee/cassidybeentjes
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William Newman performs as a soloist and in a variety of ensembles, including the Mascaro-Newman Flute and Guitar Duo, the Penn-Newman Guitar Duo, Network For New Music and the Newman-Ghezzi Duo. In addition, he has performed with Network For New Music, the Opera Company of Philadelphia at the Academy of Music and in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. William has worked to expand the guitar chamber music repertoire and has published transcriptions for flute and guitar by Mozart, Schumann, Dvorak and Villa-Lobos.
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John Penn, recognized as the best classical and flamenco guitar teacher in the area, is a well-known performer of both classical and flamenco guitar. A member of the Penn-Newman Guitar Duo, he holds a B.A. degree in music from Rutgers University and studied classical guitar for many years with William Viola. To visit John's Youtube channel please click here 
John Marcel Williams holds both Bachelor and Masters degrees from the Peabody Conservatory where he studied with Manuel Barrueco. He is currently studying at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Jason Vieaux and David Starobin. John has won top prizes in numerous competitions throughout the US. He regularly performs solo concerts in the US as well as internationally and is an active chamber musician. More details can be found on his website: www.johnmarcelguitar.com.