APPEARING IN THE MEMBERS’ CONCERT
The Back Bay Guitar Trio formed in 2002 and has performed at Dartmouth College, Longy School of Music, Berklee College of Music, St. Anselm College, University of New Hampshire, The House of Blues and at the world renowned Boston Hatch Shell. The BBGT have also been featured artists in the Boston Classical Guitar Society concert series, the North Shore Leider concert series in Rockport, Massachusetts and opened up for guitarist Al Dimeola at the Lebanon (NH) Opera House. The Back Bay Guitar trio toured Germany in the summer of 2009.
David Newsam currently works as an assistant professor in the guitar department at Berklee where he has taught since 1989. He is also employed as a senior lecturer in music at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH where he teaches guitar and jazz improvisation. John Mason studied at Middlebury College, graduating in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in music. In 2002, he won the Guitarmageddon National Championship at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. He is currently on faculty at Westfield State College, Holyoke Community College and the Northfield Mount Hermon School. Sharon Wayne received her BM and MM degrees in Classical Guitar Performance from USC where she studied with William Kanengiser and James Smith. She is First Prize winner of the 1991 ASTA Solo Guitar Competition and a former Artistic Director of the Boston Classical Guitar Society, as is David Newsam.
