Steven Seidenman

Steven Seidenman has been performing as a classical guitarist for over 25 years. His various concert venues have included the Montgomery County Arts Council, The Martin Luther King Memorial Library, Church of the Epiphany, The Mansion at Strathmore, Rockville Civic Center, The Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, Lisner Auditorium, and Montgomery College's Guest Artist series. He performed twice for Maryland television. Steven was a winner of the Montpelier Recital Competition, selected as one of two guitarists to first win in the competition's history. In 2011 he was invited to perform at the 8th annual Zihuatanejo International Guitar Festival in Southern Mexico (Zihuafest), representing the classical guitar among the diverse styles of guitar music presented at the festival. He has released three CD's of solo guitar music, and has made several guitar transcriptions of music by Bach, Mendelssohn, Vivaldi, Chopin and other composers. He has performed at weddings, anniversaries, receptions, corporate events, memorial services, and a variety of other special events, as well as community centers, libraries, universities, and charitable organizations. In addition to solo guitar repertoire spanning from the Renaissance through to the present, including music written for him, his repertoire also includes tasteful arrangements of vintage American standards, as well as works from the chamber music repertoire for guitar and flute, violin, and string quartet by composers such as Giuliani, Sor, Paganini, Berlioz, Boccherini, Bach, Mozart, among others. Steven also teaches classical guitar.