Evan Hirschelman
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Evan Hirschelman is an award-winning American classical guitarist and composer, born in Detroit, Michigan.
He is known as a classical composer who incorporates other musical styles into his music, including jazz, rock and metal influences. His music has been recorded by some of today's most respected musicians, including the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
and Chinese guitarist Xuefei Yang. One example of his compositional style is the work "Lament and Wake", which is featured on the Grammy award winning recording LAGQ's Guitar Heroes, Telarc Records.
As a guitarist Hirschelman has been a prize winner in multiple competitions, including the Stotsenberg International Guitar Competition. He is known as an expressive artist who incorporates extended techniques such as tapping
and slapping
into his playing style. He has collaborated with diverse artists, including jazz-fusion pioneer Rick Laird of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, classical guitarist Scott Tennant
, rock guitarist Paul Gilbert
, and the late legendary jazz great Ted Greene
.
Hirschelman is a graduate of the University of Southern California
and University of Arizona
. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Evan resides in Los Angeles, CA and has taught at the Musicians Institute
, Hollywood, in addition to running a private studio. His debut CD "Water in Darkness" was released in 2009, followed by a guitar instruction book Acoustic Artistry -Slapping, Tapping, & Percussion Techniques for Classical and Fingerstyle Guitar published by the Hal Leonard Corporation.
Evan resides on the web at www.theguitarist.net.http://www.theguitarist.net
He is known as a classical composer who incorporates other musical styles into his music, including jazz, rock and metal influences. His music has been recorded by some of today's most respected musicians, including the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet consists of John Dearman, William Kanengiser, Scott Tennant and Matthew Greif . They are known for using nylon string guitars to imitate a variety of instruments and effects....
and Chinese guitarist Xuefei Yang. One example of his compositional style is the work "Lament and Wake", which is featured on the Grammy award winning recording LAGQ's Guitar Heroes, Telarc Records.
As a guitarist Hirschelman has been a prize winner in multiple competitions, including the Stotsenberg International Guitar Competition. He is known as an expressive artist who incorporates extended techniques such as tapping
Tapping
Tapping is a guitar playing technique, where a string is fretted and set into vibration as part of a single motion of being pushed onto the fretboard, as opposed to the standard technique being fretted with one hand and picked with the other...
and slapping
Slapping
In music, the term slapping is often used to refer to two different playing techniques used on the double bass and on the bass guitar.-Double bass:...
into his playing style. He has collaborated with diverse artists, including jazz-fusion pioneer Rick Laird of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, classical guitarist Scott Tennant
Scott Tennant
Scott Tennant is a Grammy Award-winning American classical guitarist. He is a member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and is the author of the Pumping Nylon series of instructional books, repertoire supplements, and DVD....
, rock guitarist Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert
Paul Brandon Gilbert is an American guitarist. He is well known for his technical guitar work with Racer X and Mr...
, and the late legendary jazz great Ted Greene
Ted Greene
Theodore "Ted" Greene was an American fingerstyle jazz guitarist, music columnist, and music educator active in Encino, California.-Early Days:...
.
Hirschelman is a graduate of the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
and University of Arizona
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...
. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Evan resides in Los Angeles, CA and has taught at the Musicians Institute
Musicians Institute
Musicians Institute is a privately owned for-profit music vocational school located in Hollywood, California. Although not a regionally accredited school, the school offers a variety of unaccredited Bachelor Degree, Associate Degree and Certificate programs in fields including contemporary music...
, Hollywood, in addition to running a private studio. His debut CD "Water in Darkness" was released in 2009, followed by a guitar instruction book Acoustic Artistry -Slapping, Tapping, & Percussion Techniques for Classical and Fingerstyle Guitar published by the Hal Leonard Corporation.
Evan resides on the web at www.theguitarist.net.http://www.theguitarist.net
External links
- Official Website (www.theguitarist.net)
- Evan Hirschelman on Youtube
- Evan Hirschelman at Facebook
- Evan Hirschelman at MySpace