Alchemy Mobile synthesizer for iOS can now be enjoyed by VoiceOver screen reader users

has established herself as a dynamic performer with a powerful stage presence. Finger Style Guitar Magazine described her as an “amazing player that commands the guitar with world-class technique and musicianship that is uncommon.”

A graduate of American University and VP of the Aaron Shearer Foundation, Will Adams is widely acknowledged as the foremost expert on the pedagogical theories of Aaron Shearer.  After retiring from the concert circuit in 1988, Adams went into commercial audio production and voice over work. He is a voting member of the Grammy Committee, a faculty lecturer at the Aaron Shearer Institute, and a popular commercial voice artist. His classical guitar instructors included John Marlow, Michael Lorimer, Oscar Guiglia, Aaron Shearer, and Bruce Holtzman.

received a B.M. in classical guitar performance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a M.M. in classical guitar performance from the University of South Carolina. He has completed two European performance tours and received a research grant to spend a summer in Siena, Italy giving chamber music concerts throughout Tuscany. In 1995, he traveled to London where he studied privately with Michael Lewin (Head of Guitar Studies at the Royal Academy of Music). He has performed in masterclasses for guitar professors from Yale University, the Manhattan School of Music, The University of Southern California, and the Cleveland Institute of Music.

is a Jazz Guitarist known worldwide as a pioneer in fusing the rhythms and melodic themes of the Middle East with Modern Jazz.  Hoffman started playing guitar at the age of 6 and the oud a few years later. He studied guitar privately and later attended the prestigious Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem.

While Rod Lewis’ primary musical outlet is guitar, his interests and involvement are more broad. He received his BA degree in music education in 1986 and began teaching high school band and classroom music in Pennsylvania. Rod received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in performance at the University of South Carolina in 1998 where he studied under Christopher Berg.

He has worked as a studio guitarist, session musician, and has given solo classical guitar performances throughout North and South Carolina, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Rod has been featured on South Carolina Educational Radio on the program Hanging on to My Baton with Nicholas Smith. He has performed on the Fretworks Series at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. As a composer, Rod has contributed choral service music for the Anglican liturgy, as well as choral settings of Psalms and poems by George Herbert and Gerard Manley Hopkins.  He has served as music director and coordinator for the Anglican Church in North America’s Triennial Gathering. In addition to serving as Program Director and professor of music at Columbia International University, teaching guitar and music theory, and directing the chorus, Rod serves as Music Director and Parish Musician at the Church of the Apostles, Columbia, SC.

 earned her masters degree from Appalachian State University and received her doctoral degree from the University of South Carolina. As a teaching assistant to Christopher Berg, Alma received an “Honorary Teaching Assistant Award” in recognition of her exceptional teaching in applied lessons and was nominated for the “USC Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.”

Described as “an outstanding talent” by the Charleston Post and Courier, performs exquisite music for every occasion including traditional classical repertoire, jazz standards, and many of his own renditions of popular music (James Taylor, Adele, Jack Johnson, The Beatles, and more)!

Keisha Long is the Administrative Director for the Southern Guitar Festival. Her responsibilities include website maintenance, document management, and other administrative duties related to the SGFC. When she is not playing the guitar, exercising in the water, or finishing a stained glass piece, she is working as an environmental engineer associate for the state of South Carolina.

Tamara Wilson is the administrative assistant for the Southern Guitar Festival. When she is not playing guitar, ‘digging’ in the dirt, or taking awesome photographs, she is working at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology as an Archaeological Technician.