Marc Teicholz

Marc Teicholz, classical guitarist, is the first prize winner of the 1989 International Guitar Foundation of America competition, a winner in New York ’s 1991 “East-West Artists” competition, the 1986 Paganini competition, and a finalist in the 1992 Pro Musicis competition.

A member of the California Council for the Arts Touring Roster. Mr. Teicholz has toured Southeast Asia, Fiji, and New Zealand under the auspices of the U.S.I.A. Artistic Ambassador program. He has appeared as a soloist with the Far Eastern Orchestra in Russia, the Metropolitan Orchestra in Lisbon, Portugal, the Cordoba Orchestra in Spain, and the Maui Symphony.

Mr. Teicholz also tours the United States with "A Festival of Four." He has recorded several solo CD's for Naxos, Sugo, and Menus and Music, as well as the pilot soundtrack for George Lucas’ “Young Indiana Jones.

He is on the faculty of the S.F. Conservatory and at Calif. State University at Hayward. Previously, he has taught at California State University at Sacramento as well as at the California Summer Arts Festival and the Weathersfield Music Festival in Vermont.

Marc Teicholz graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, 1985, received a master's degree from the Yale School of Music, 1986, and a J.D. from the U.C., Berkeley at the Boalt School of Law, 1990.