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Max ZuckermanGuitarist Max Zuckerman currently studies under Benjamin Verdery at the Yale School of Music in the Master of Music degree program. Max is a graduate of the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore where he earned both a Bachelors of Music and a Graduate Performance Degree in the studio of Manuel Barrueco. Prior to entering the conservatory, he studied guitar for twelve years with Scott Cmiel, in San Francisco, where he also completed the Certificate Program of the Preparatory Division at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.Max has performed in master classes for Lily Afshar, Manuel Barrueco, Roland Dyens, Julian Gray, John Holmquist, William Kanengiser, Ron Pearl, David Tanenbaum, Scott Tennant, and Benjamin Verdery. Max has performed in the Junior Bach Festival (Berkeley, CA), was winner of the 1998 and 2000 Menuhin-Dowling Young Musicians Competition for string players, and has twice been a featured performer on "From the Top," a PBS radio program featuring talented young musicians. In 2002, at the American String Teachers' Association national competition, Max won first prize in his division (under 18 guitar) and Grand Prize for all string instruments in the under 18 division. In 2001 and 2002 Max was named a California Arts Scholar by Governor Gray Davis. In March 2003 he won first prize in the Portland Guitar Festival Solo Guitar Competition and was a solo performer at the PGF the following year. In November 2003 Max was featured in a masterclass with Roland Dyens at the Yale Guitar Extravaganza 4. In July 2007 Max performed and taught masterclasses at the week-long Encuentro Internacional de Guitarra de Panama in Panama City. Last spring he premiered a new work commissioned by the Baltimore Classical Guitar Society in Baltimore and this fall he was the featured performer in the New York City Classical Guitar Society Second Sundays Concert Series at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York.
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