EDUCATION

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LVJ was the first guitarist to graduate from the Idaho State University School of Fine Arts Music Department. He later became a faculty member and founded the study of Classical Guitar as a standard curriculum at the University in Pocatello, Idaho.

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• Idaho State University, Bachelor of Arts Journalism.

• Idaho State University, Bachelor of Music Guitar Performance.

• San Francisco State University, Master of Arts Guitar Performance, Honors Graduate.

 

​In the following years, while continuing in music, LVJ founded a company and began a 

career as an Insurance Executive for over 20 years. This business activity earned him the title from fellow musicians as “The Charles Ives of the Guitar” while composing, concertizing, and continually slaying dragons to feed to the hungry bulldog that eats money, creates bills and raises financial overhead for all of us every month.....

 

A Vietnam Veteran of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division, LVJ served in the 502nd Infantry (Rifleman) and the 321st Artillery Battalion, 105 mm Howitzers receiving an Honorable Discharge.

 

LVJ and Conductor Kent Nagano were honored together by San Francisco State University as “Distinguished Alumni.”

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Master Class Studies

Narciso Yepes – San Francisco State University.

Christopher Parkening – The Sun Valley, Idaho Center for the Arts.

Able Carlevaro – San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Julian Bream – San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Alirio Diaz – The Banff School of Fine Arts, Alberta, Canada.

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