Jon Damian is an international performer, composer, lecturer, clinician, educator, and author. His varied performances range from Luciano Pavarotti to Bill Frisell, and from the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa to Johnny Cash with the Boston Pops under John Williams. Other performances have included Jaki Byard, Leonard Bernstein, Howard McGhee, Jimmy Giuffre, Sheila Jordan, Ricky Ford, Joanne Brackeen, Don Byron, Bobby Watson, Rosemary Clooney, Linda Ronstadt, and James Taylor. Jon Damian has recorded in a wide range of settings including The Boston Pops Orchestra under John Williams and Keith Lockhart, Bob Nieske's Wolf Soup, The Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, Collage, and for NOVA. Jon's new book The Guitarists Guide To Composing and Improvising is now available through Berklee Press and Hal Leonard Publications. Jon has twice been a guest on Christopher Lydon's show "The Connection" lecturing and performing on the history of the guitar. He has also been a consultant for Boston's Museum of Fine Arts for their recent guitar exhibit "Dangerous Curves: The Art of the Guitar" and performed in conjunction with the exhibit. Jon is a recipient of the Pro Arts Consortium Award from the City of Boston for his founding and 10-year leadership of the Performance Outreach Program. Jon's trio along with Bill Frisell has produced a CD "Dedications: Faces and Places" on the YO label which consists of his own compositions written for loved ones and places in his life. Jon Damian is originally from Brooklyn, New York and is currently a professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and a faculty member for the graduate program at the Boston Conservatory of Music.