Recognized internationally as a superlative performing and recording artist, a charismatic educator, and a transcriber and editor of both taste and intelligence, David Tanenbaum is one of the most admired classical guitarists of his generation.

      David Tanenbaum made his debut at the age of sixteen and has since performed in recitals, masterclasses, and with orchestras throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Japan, China, and Taiwan. He has been guest soloist with the London Sinfonietta, Oakland, Omaha, Portland, Long Beach, and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestras, Germany's ORF Orchester, and, as guest guitar soloist with The Joffrey Ballet, with the Chicago, San Francisco, Oregon, and Seattle Symphony Orchestras. A proponent of chamber music with guitar, he has also appeared with the Kronos, Chester, and Shanghai Quartets, Steve Reich and Musicians, and the Ensemble Modern of Frankfurt, while his festival credentials include those of Bath, Luzern, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Finland, Hungary, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Cuernavaca, Mexico, and Carmel and San Luis Obispo, California. In November, 1995, he was invited by New York City's famed Tisch Center for the Arts to participate in its 70th Birthday Celebration of Luciano Berio, a gala program comprised of the composer's complete Sequenzas for solo instruments. He was also Artistic Director of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's "Celebrating Lou Harrison!", a February 1997 festival of music dance, film, visual art, poetry, and discussion, honoring the 80th Birthday of this distinguished American composer. Later that month, he performed Takemitsu's All in Twilight at a special concert in Tokyo, commemorating the first anniversary of the composer's death.

      Among the many works written for Mr. Tanenbaum are Terry Riley's Ascencion and Barabas, Hans Werner Henze's guitar concerto An Eine Aolsharfe, and two works by Aaron Jay Kernis. He premiered the Henze concerto throughout Europe and the United States, with the composer conducting. other notable first performances include the European premieres of Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint and the United States premieres of Peter Maxwell Davies' Sonata and Hill Runes.

      David Tanenbaum has recorded the complete Royal Winter Music by Henze for Audiofon Records; Great American Guitar Solo, an album of music by Curtis-Smith, Currier, Bolcom, Korde, and Johanson on Neuma; Lute Masterworks, a guitar recording of Bach, Dowland, and Milano, on Innova Digital Archive; Estudios, a double CD of studies by Sor, Carcassi and Brouwer on GSP; and Henze's An Eine Aolsharfe on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi. New Albion has released the critically acclaimed Acoustic Counterpoint (one of only five classical recordings included among "The Desert-Isle Top 10011 list compiled by Acoustic Guitar magazine in its January/February, 1994 issue), The Perilous Chapel, and a bestselling album of the music of Astor Piazzolla. His latest, David Tanenbaum, with music by Reich, Richmond, Kernis, Riley, Zappa, and Hovhaness, was released in 1997. He can also be heard on the EMI (with Manuel Barrueco), Albany, Green Linnett, and Rhino labels.

      A recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund, and the California Arts Council, Mr. Tanenbaum was an Affiliate Artist from 1983-88. He is much in demand for masterclasses at leading universities and conservatories and is currently Chairman of the Guitar Department at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, which honored him with its 1995 Outstanding Professor Award.In 1989, he served as President of the highly successful Second American Classical Guitar Congress, held at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. For that Congress, he commissioned five new scores, including a work for 100 guitars by Henry Brant.

      David Tanenbaum has edited The Lou Harrison Guitar Book, and has long been associated with that composer. He has produced several editions of guitar music, including The David Tanenbaum Concert Series available through Guitar Solo Publications. Recently, he published three books analyzing the etudes of Sor, Carcassi, and Brouwer to complement his recording of those works.

Web site: http://www.davidtanenbaum.com/

"I have never heard such a skillful and musically moving performance, and such mastery." — Hans Werner Henze	"Consistent artistry of the highest level, finding something new in each performance." — Robert Joffrey
"I wanted to write right away to tell you how beautifully and sensitively you played my piece. Bravo!! ...everything felt right!" — William Bolcom	"I must say nothing would make me happier than to create a very wonderful piece for you...I greatly admire your work." — Terry Riley
"It is my opinion that Mr. Tanenbaum is one of the very best and most interesting guitarists before the public today. Served by a fine technique, his developed musicianship is at the service of one of the most exquisite sensitivities I have ever encountered." — Manuel Barrueco
"(David Tanenbaum's) recital was unforgettable and it's great to see how far talent, discipline, intelligence, love and a good instrument can reach!" — Oscar Ghiglia	"...one of the most brilliant young concert guitarists on the musical scene today." — Aaron Shearer, North Carolina School of the Arts