JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (Pacific, MO)

Johann Sebastian Bach, born March 31, 1685 - July 28, 1750, was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period ...

DOUG BACK (Montgomery, AL)

SHERYL BAILEY (Boston, MA)

Guitarist Sheryl Bailey is rated among the foremost bop- based guitarists to have emerged in the 1990s. Her attack can ...

ANSEL L. (MIKE) BAILEY, JR. (Soddy Daisy, TN)

DUCK BAKER (Reading)

JANITA BAKER (Santa Margarita, CA)

Janita Baker has been playing and teaching mountain dulcimer since 1975 and is in great demand at dulcimer festivals a ...

BUTCH BALDASSARI (Nashville, TN)

Mandolinist Butch Baldassari has created new interest in this age-old instrument and is luring legions of new admirers ...

PAUL BALLAM-CROSS (Ferny Hills, Qld)

Dr. Paul Ballam-Cross is a writer, classical guitarist, and bassist. He has completed a Bachelor of Music in Performan ...

REMI BALSACQ (Fenton, MO)

Remi Balsacq hails from Belgium. He has a breathtaking number of cakewalks and ragtime guitar arrangements. Remi star ...

BOB BALSLEY (Green Bay, WI)

BRIAN BALTHAZOR (Palm Springs, CA)

ROBERT BANCALARI (Buena Park, CA)

Bobby Bancalari, aka baroquenoise, is a musician and composer in Long Beach, CA. He started his musical career at the ...

SUE BANKS (Saint Louis, MO)

VICTOR BARBA (Murrieta, CA)

DIEGO BARBER (Brooklyn, NY)

Diego Barber was attracted to music from a very early age. He received initial training at Lanzarote Conservatory under ...

NICK BARBER (Pacific, MO)

CARLOS BARBOSA-LIMA (San Juan, PR)

The Brazilian classical guitarist Carlos Barbosa-Lima is acclaimed as one of the leading guitarists in the world. Sinc ...

SUZANNA BARNES (Cincinnati, OH)

Suzanna Barnes has been playing music almost all of her life. She started when she was just three years old on the vio ...

BARRAGE (Pacific, MO)

ELIAS BARREIRO (Covington, LA)

DAVID BARRETT (Morgan Hill, CA)

David Barrett is the world's leading expert in blues harmonica education..blazing the way in every facet of its educat ...

RUTH BARRETT (Dansville, MI)

Ruth Barrett is an award-winning mountain dulcimer player, singer, and recording artist who began playing the mountain ...

CHRIS BARTRAM (Cornwall)

FRANK BASILE (Pacific, MO)

JONATHAN BASS (Olive Branch, MS)

Jonathan Bass is currently instructor of guitar at Northwest Mississippi Community College and maintains an active sch ...

JOHN BAUER (Columbia, SC)

John Bauer is Distinguished Professor Emeritus from USC. He received the Bachelor of Music and the Master of Music de ...

STEVE BAUGHMAN (Fremont, CA)

Steve Baughman is a pioneering fingerstyle guitarist known for his emotive arrangements of Celtic fiddle and harp tunes ...

GARTH BAXTER (Westminster, MD)

JOHN BAXTER (Riverside, CA)

COLLIN BAY (Pittsford, NY)

Collin Bay began studying music as a four-year-old. He attended Interlochen Arts Academy and was part of the Interloch ...

MEL BAY (Fenton, MO)

Mel Bay (1913 - 1997) is one of the legendary figures in the history of the modern guitar. Born in the little Ozark tow ...

WILLIAM BAY (Saint Louis, MO)

William Bay received his undergraduate degree in business at Washington University in St. Louis and his MBA at the Uni ...

KEOLA BEAMER (Lahaina, HI)

ORI BEANSTOCK (Givataim 53605)

Ori Beanstock is a musician, composer, and guitar designer. Born in Israel in 1965 he started to play the guitar at the ...

LANCE BEAUMONT (Riverside, CA)

Lance Beaumont is a graduate of Texas Christian University. He holds both a B.M. and an M.M. in classical guitar perfo ...

WILLIAM BEAUVAIS (Toronto, ON)

William Beauvais has been commissioned to write for the Royal Conservatory Children's Choir, the Canadian Music Centre ...

LEONHARD BECK (Dinslaken Nrw)

DAVID BECKER (Springfield, IL)

HANS-PETER BECKER (Pacific, MO)

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (Pacific, MO)

DREW BEISSWENGER (Bella Vista, AR)

Drew Beisswenger first became interested in fiddle music as a teenager in Nashville, Tennessee, in the 1970s. After s ...

RAY BELL (Little Rock, AR)

PAULO BELLINATI (05448-000 Sao Paulo Sp)

JAMEY BELLIZZI (Nevada City, CA)

MICHAEL N. BELLMONT (Olivebridge, NY)

Raised in Houston, Texas, Michael Bellmont grew up surrounded by a broad range of musical styles from blues, rock, and ...

ALESSANDRA BELLONI (Edgewater, NJ)

Alessandra Belloni is the Artistic Director, Founder, and Lead Performer of "I GIULLARI DI PIAZZA", an Italian Music, ...

ROBERT BENEDICT (Port Alberini, BC)

DONA BENKERT (Naperville, IL)

JON BENNETT (Oxford)

Jon has performed at festivals, arts centres and clubs in Lincolnshire, Shropshire, Oxfordshire and the North East sin ...

STEPHEN BENNETT (West Cornwall, CT)

Stephen Bennett was born in Oregon, grew up in New York, and has lived in Virginia for the better part of the last thre ...

PIERRE BENSUSAN (02400 Bouresches)

CHRISTOPHER BERG (Columbia, SC)

ARNIE BERLE (Centerport, NY)

RON BERMAN (Lawndale, CA)

JORGE BERMUDEZ (Pacific, MO)

BRANDON BERSTEIN (Pacific, MO)

PHILIP JOHN BERTHOUD (Ivybridge, DEVON)

Born in Zimbabwe in 1966 and self-taught as a guitarist, fiddler and mandolinist, Philip John Berthoud has been a prof ...

FRANCO BERTUCCI (Quilcene, WA)

Franco Bertucci was a late starter. He began playing guitar at the age of 15, at which time he became completely obses ...

JAMES BETTS (Rio, IL)

VISHWA MOHAN BHATT (Pacific, MO)

DEBASHISH BHATTACHARYA (Pacific, MO)

CHUCK BIANCHI (Rochester, NY)

Chuck Bianchi graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in performance studies. Since t ...

ERIC BIBB (Pacific, MO)

ROBERT BIELEFELD (Hot Springs, AR)

MARK BIGGS (Springfield, MO)

Born in 1954 in Kansas City, Mark Biggs first began to play the Mountain Dulcimer in 1979 when he and a friend found a ...

TOM BILLS (Lake Saint Louis, MO)

ROY BOOK BINDER (Pacific, MO)

AL BIONDI (Brooklyn, NY)

Al Biondi was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957 where he hails from a musical family whose four generations of profes ...

CHUCK BIRD (Scottsdale, AZ)

ANGELA BIRKHEAD-FLIGHT (Cincinnati, OH)

American composer and musician Angela Birkhead-Flight began working as a church musician in high school and continued ...

ANDREW BISHKO (Buffalo, MO)

Andrew has been playing and studying musical instruments since 1965. He received his Masters in Music in Third Stream ...

NANCY BLAKE (Pacific, MO)

NORMAN BLAKE (Colorado Springs, CO)

RORY BLOCK (Pacific, MO)

RYAN A BLOOM (Los Alamos, NM)

Ryan Alexander Bloom has been playing the drums since 1996 and holds a bachelor's degree in percussion from the Univer ...

STEVE BLOOM (New York, NY)

Steve Bloom started out learning American Folk and Popular Songs from the '50s, 60's, and early '70s. He then began st ...

EVO BLUESTEIN (Clovis, CA)

Evo Bluestein is known for his music on many instruments but he has a special connection to the autoharp. Perhaps the ...

JEMMY BLUESTEIN (Pacific, MO)

HARRY BLUESTONE (Pacific, MO)

KIM BOCK (New York, NY)

GUIDO BOGER (33175 Bad Lippspringe)

The guitarist Guido Boger was born and raised in Bad Lippspringe, North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany. He became intereste ...

MARK BOLING (Knoxville, TN)

Mark Boling is an Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of the University of Tennessee Jazz Program. He receive ...

BRUCE BOLLERUD (Madison, WI)

Bruce Bollerud was born and raised on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin. His parents were Norwegian- American. Bruce was ...

BEN BOLT (Lenoir City, TN)

Ben Bolt is credited with being the first classic guitar instructor to introduce the classic style of playing to the m ...

DUSAN BORJANIC (Isleworth)

COLIN BOTTS (Evanston, WY)

As an accomplished multi-instrumentalist and former Capitol Records- Nashville recording artist, Colin Botts has perfo ...

LOU BOUSTANI (Montreal, QC)

DAN BOWDEN (Brookline, MA)

MICHAEL BOYD (Hattiesburg, MS)

Classical guitarist and Mississippi native Michael Boyd received his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Performance and ...

CHRISTOPHER BOYDSTON (Boulder, CO)

MATTHIAS BOYER (Pacific, MO)

Matthias Boyer, born in 1965, studied classical saxophone at the University for Music in Enschede, the Netherlands, an ...

FRANK BRADBURY (Pacific, MO)

JOHANNES BRAHMS (Pacific, MO)

Jozsef Eotvos was born October 15, 1962 in Pecs, Hungary. He was a student of Professor Roland Zimmer at the "Franz Li ...

MICK BRAMICH (Pacific, MO)

DIRK BRAND (Pacific, MO)

Dirk Brand, born in 1969, studied at the Percussion Institute of Technology in Los Angeles and is a live and studio dr ...

DEYAN BRATIC (Saint Louis, MO)

RENATA BRATT (Scotts Valley, CA)

Cellist and clinician Renata Bratt is a founding member of the American String Teachers Association Alternative String ...

LENNY BREAU (Pacific, MO)

VINCENT BREDICE (Springfield, MO)

Vincent Bredice M. M. - Now an associate professor and guitar instructor at Miami-Dade Junior College, Miami, Florida, ...

BILL BRENNAN (Prudhoe, NORTHUMBERLAND)

BILL BRENNENSTUHL (Hollywood, CA)

STEPHEN S. BREW (Spencerport, NY)

With a vast array of performances that include a tour of Spain with the Fredonia Guitar Quartet, a third-place finish a ...

FRANK BRIGGS (North Hollywood, CA)

'Best known for his top-selling instructional book/DVD, "The Complete Modern Drum Set", and Grammy -nominated solo alb ...

JON TEN BROEK (Corvallis, OR)

DAVID BROMBERG (Pacific, MO)

ZAKHAR BRON (Pacific, MO)

Zakhar Bron, prize winner of many important violin competitions such as the International Queen Elizabeth Competition ...

CLIFF BROOKS (Berkeley, CA)

Clifford Brooks has been drumming ever since he was 6 years old. It all started when he was standing at "Parade Rest" ...

JOHN BROPHY (Saint Louis, MO)

STUART BROTTMAN (St Charles, IL)

Stuart Brottman is a creative artist with wide and diverse musical experiences in performance and education. He has ea ...

JOHN ROBERT BROWN (Leeds)

John Robert Brown, author of A Concise History of Jazz, plays the saxophone and clarinet, and contributes to several m ...

ROLLY BROWN (Sellersville, PA)

TYRONE BROWN (Philadelphia, PA)

Bassist Tyrone Brown has recorded over 125 CDs to date including six with legendary drummer Max Roach, six with saxoph ...

BOB BROZMAN (Pacific, MO)

DIX BRUCE (Concord, CA)

Dix was a musician, composer, author, and award-winning guitarist from the San Francisco Bay Area. He performed and re ...

BUNNY BRUNEL (Laguna Woods, CA)

TOM BRUNER (Las Vegas, NV)

After graduating from North 'Texas State University in 1967 with a Bachelor of Music degree in jazz performance and co ...

KEVIN BRUNKHORST (Denton, TX)

RAINER BRUNN (Pacific, MO)

JIMMY BRUNO (Abington, PA)

One would be hard-pressed to find another jazz guitarist so polished, sought-after, and committed to the music that he ...

BENEDIKT BRYDERN (Santa Monica, CA)

Benedikt Brydern studied violin and piano at the Richard- Strauss Academy of Music in Munich, Germany. He undertook pri ...

THEODORE OSCAR BUCHHOLZ (Tucson, AZ)

Theodore Buchholz is the cello professor at the University of Arizona. Described by newspaper critics as a "virtuosic ...

DENNIS C BUCKO (La Jolla, CA)

MICHAEL BUERK (Kirkwood, MO)

Mike has been a Woodwind Doubler during his career. He has just completed his 47th year in The Muny Opera Orchestra as ...

STUART BULL (Pacific, MO)

Stuart Bull has taught tens of thousands of guitarists worldwide through the award-winning Lick Library guitar series. ...

JOHN BULLARD (Manakin Sabot, VA)

John Bullard has attracted international attention for his work in developing and transcribing classical repertoire for ...

BASIL BUNELIK (Devon)

Basil Bunelik was born in the UK surrounded by music. His Ukrainian mother played piano and sang, and his father of Ir ...

DAVID BURDEN (Welwyn Garden City, HERTFORDSHIRE)

CHRIS BURGMANN (Pacific, MO)

JETHRO BURNS (Pacific, MO)

ROBERT BURNS (Pacific, MO)

ANDRE BUSH (Fresno, CA)

T. DOUGLAS BUSH (San Diego, CA)

Guitarist, arranger, and author T. Douglas Bush studied classical guitar under Joseph Trotter, and harmony and counter ...

CHRISTOPHER BUZZELLI (Bowling Green, OH)

Chris Buzzelli has been called "a gifted guitarist who deserves to be better known" by Adrian Ingram in Just Jazz Guit ...

L. DEAN BYE (Frisco, TX)

PAMELA COOPER BYE (Frisco, TX)

CHARLIE BYRD (Annapolis, MD)

TODD BYRNE (Escondido, CA)