The Japanese guitarist Shin-Ichi Fukuda possesses an astonishingly large repertoire, ranging from the Renaissance to the present day. He is especially known for his probing exploration of the 19th-century guitar repertoire, employing instruments created at the time the music was composed, as well as for performing modern classical music and even music in a jazz-fusion idiom.
Scott Cmiel is Chair of the guitar and musicianship departments at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division and Director of the guitar program at San Francisco School of the Arts.