About the Instructor
Bob Williams
Bob Williams began playing guitar in middle school and has since been performing and teaching for over 30 years. While playing in bands along the east coast in high school and college he continued his studies of jazz and classical guitar.
After receiving his high schools most talented award he attended Methodist University where he developed a jazz program for the music department. After receiving his music degree he continued classical guitar studies at UNC-W with Michael Lorimer, a student of Segovia. At this time he developed a classical guitar program at Sandhills Community College. Many of his students went on to earn their degree and a number of his jazz students have graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music. As an instructor Bob has written two method books which has sold more than 4000 copies.
His Modern Method for Guitar is used by a number of teachers and schools. After teaching in the public school system in North Carolina and developing a private school of music he moved to Charleston, South Carolina where he continues to teach and perform full time. His students are consistently chosen as the guitarists for the local middle and high school jazz bands and his students consistently place high in the all-state jazz band auditions. Only two students are accepted from the entire state each year and Bob has had students in those positions 5 times. His students also audition regularly for the South Carolina Governor’s School on classical guitar On weekends you can hear Bob perform in the 5 star Sanctuary Hotel on Kiawah Island and Charleston Grill in Charleston Place Hotel.