Brian Kozak is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and Baldwin-Wallace College with degrees in Classical Guitar Performance. He’s studied guitar with John Holmquist and Loris Chobanian and performed in master classes with Manuel Barrueco, Aaron Shearer, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Grey and Pearl Duo and many others. Featured as a solo performer at Capital University, Kent State University and Lorain County Community College as well as ensemble performances with Red (an orchestra), the Baldwin-Wallace Motet Choir, the Lorain County Civic Orchestra and the Lakeland Civic Orchestra. A regular performer at the First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland as well as with Latin American, jazz, pop and rock ensembles. In addition to holding a full-time lectureship in the music department at Cuyahoga Community College’s metro campus Jazz Studies Program, Mr. Kozak currently directs the Childbloom Guitar Program of Cleveland and has taught guitar at Baldwin-Wallace College for Loris Chobanian during his sabbatical.