John Schneider is the GRAMMY® Award winning & triple GRAMMY® Award nominated guitarist, composer, author, and broadcaster whose weekly television and radio programs have brought the guitar into millions of homes. A past President of the Guitar Foundation of America, he has released over twenty CD’s, written dozens of articles on the guitar, while the newly revised & enlarged edition of his The Contemporary Guitar was released in 2015 (more at www.JohnSchneider.LA). He is the Founding Artistic Director of the PARTCH Ensemble, Just Strings, and MicroFest Records.