Guitarist Scott Tennant is one of today’s leading American virtuosos. Since becoming the first American ever to be awarded the first prize in the Tokyo International Guitar Competition in 1989, and his silver-medal performances in both the 1988 Concours International de Guitare of Radio France in Paris, and the 1984 Toronto Competition, his reputation as a brilliant performer has been established worldwide.
Scott Tennant is a founding member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, with which he concertizes extensively much of the year, while still maintaining a solo concert schedule throughout North America, Europe, and the Orient. He has been invited to perform on concert series in such halls as the Ambassador Auditorium in Los Angeles, San Francisco’s War Memorial, New-York’s Merkin Recital Hall, Radio France in Paris, and Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan and Casals Hall. He is in the process of recording the complete solo guitar works of Joaquin Rodrigo, which will include Rodrigo’s guitar concertos with Leo Brouwer conducting the Orquesta de Cordoba.
Scott Tennant is the author of the best-selling book on guitar technique, Pumping Nylon, which includes a video of the same name. He is on the faculties of the National Guitar Summer Workshop and the University of Southern California.
Scott Tennant can be heard with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet in their recordings on the GHA RECORDS, DELOS and on SONY CLASSICAL labels.