Gary Guth:  

My main "gig" is teaching music. I am an Orchestra Director, and string instrument specialist. I also remain active as a performer in a variety of music styles, but especially classical music, and jazz. (That photo of me is a PR photo for my jazz quartet.) I completed my first degree in Music Education as a violin major with strings emphasis, at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1976, and then completed my Masters Degree in Violin Performance in 1987, also at I.U.P. I started my teaching career in public schools in Pennsylvania, where I taught in Abington (suburban Philly) and Lock Haven (central PA). In the 1980's I also taught as a Music Instructor at the collegiate level. I was Instructor of Applied Guitar and guitar classes at Susquehanna University, Lycoming College, and Mansfield University, and I was Instructor of Applied Violin and Viola and Director of Chamber Orchestra and String Ensemble at Lock Haven University. For a while in the late 80's I taught SIMULTANEOUSLY at all four colleges, a...Expand for more