American guitarist Evan Taucher is making a statement in the classical guitar world as a performer and educator both onstage and online.
Evan is recognized worldwide not only by his international competition and concertizing career, but also his ability to reach audiences beyond just the classical community. With this, hes amassed a large following for embracing the web as a critical tool for music education and discovery. Having recorded several acclaimed classical guitar courses and keeping up with his busy schedule of performing and recording, his educational output is backed by his command of the concert stage which reinforces the importance of this artistic duality.
Evan has enjoyed performing concerts across the United States and Europe, most recently performing and teaching in the 2019 at GuitarSarasotas Concert Series, Grand Rapids International Artist Series, Madison Classical Guitar Series, the famous Palacio del Portalet in Alicante, Spain as well as in Valencia, Spain at the Florida State University campus. Evan was also a guest artist at the 2021 Guitar Foundation of Americas Guitar Summit.
During his two years of study with the Cuban virtuoso Rene Izquierdo, Evan won 8 separate prizes in professional competitions throughout the United States including 3 Grand Prizes. Evan was also the first guitarist to earn an Artist Diploma at the University of Texas at Austins Artist Diploma program, under the tutelage of Adam Holzman.
Along with his award winning courses with online education giants Truefire, PickupMusic and JamPlay, Evans educational and musical aptitude has led him to work with notable brands such as Cordoba Guitars, Blue Microphones, DAddario, and JBL Pro, and has recently been featured in publications such as Guitar Player Magazine, GFAtv, ClassicFM, and Tonebase.
Evan holds a Bachelor of Music from Florida State University where he studied with Bruce Holzman, as well as a Masters degree from UW-Milwaukee. Being named the Magellan scholar for Master Guitarra Alicante, he studied in Spain with the foremost luminaries of the classical guitar earning a secondary Masters certificate.
In 2020, he co-founded a nonprofit with his colleagues Phil Goldenburg and Hannah Murphy called Ex-Aequo, an artist collective that aims to broaden and strengthen the classical guitar community. At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Ex-Aequo hosted the largest online classical guitar competition to date, with over 140 entries,. They were also awarded grants from both the Augustine Foundation as well as the Rainwater Innovation fund, kickstarting their project Changing the Canon which allowed for the commissioning of nine new works for classical guitar, a visual album surrounding it, as well as huge community outreach initiative involving Austin Classical Guitar and the Virtual Guitar Orchestra.
Taucher is a DAddario Artist and performs on a 2019 Steven Walter guitar.
This was a course I didn't realize I needed. Evan's course is a great way to break into the genre of classical guitar. His approach is really down to earth and he explains the techniques without over explaining. The course is concise and it is too bad he only has two courses here. I plan to exhaust them both. Great great course!
