{"id":225539,"name":"Jonathan Trotta","url":"","description":"Concert guitarist Jonathan Trotta has performed throughout the U.S. and in the New York metropolitan tri-state area.\u00a0 Jonathan has trained in the Suzuki Method with Frank Longay, Seth Himmelhoch, Andrea Cannon, and MaryLou Roberts.\u00a0 Many of his students have won music competitions and have been selected to participate in master classes with acclaimed classical guitarists, notably Ana Vidovic, David Leisner, Newman and Oltman duo, Nicholas Goluses, Joao Luis, Benjamin Verdery, and Grammy Award winners, Sharon Isbin, William Kannengiser, Berta Rojas, and Jason Vieaux; and have been accepted into reputable music colleges, such as Juilliard (pre-college division) and Manhattan School of Music, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Yale School of Music, and SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music.\r\nHis performance credits include an appearance as a featured guest on Boston TV56\u2019s \u201cDe Todo un Poco\u201d; a Maine Public Broadcasting radio show, \u201cMusic du Jour\u201d; a private benefit concert for Academy Award Actress Helen Hayes; and a duet performance with concert guitarist Benjamin Verdery.\u00a0He has also performed Antonio Vivaldi\u2019s \u201cConcerto in D major\u201d with the Rockland Symphony Orchestra.\u00a0\r\nJonathan was chosen to participate in master classes with world-renowned classical guitarists Christopher Parkening, Sharon Isbin, and Manuel Barrueco.\u00a0He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in guitar performance and composition from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music.\u00a0 During this time, he studied classical guitar with Benjamin Verdery and David Starobin, composition with Juilliard teacher Andrew Thomas, Baroque performance practice with Anthony Newman, and conducting with David Milnes.\u00a0After college, he studied traditional flamenco guitar with Dennis Koster and Basilio Georges.\r\nHe teaches Suzuki, classical, and flamenco guitar, as well as an online musicianship class that parallels the Suzuki approach, encompassing sight-reading, sight-singing, ear training, music theory, harmonic analysis, and composition applied to the guitar. Besides his private studio (remote), he is presently head of the guitar department at the Rockland Conservatory of Music in Pearl River, NY, and also on the faculty of the JCC Thurnauer School of Music in Tenafly, NJ, the Hoff-Barthelson Music School in Scarsdale, NY, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, NY, and the American River College, Sacramento, CA (remote).\u00a0He has also taught at the Guitar Study Center at the New School for Social Research and the American Institute of Guitar in New York, NY. 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