In addition to being the Instructor of Guitar at the Interlochen Arts Academy, John Wunsch is currently the artistic director of the Interlochen Guitar Festival Workshop and a regularly contributing columnist for Mel Bay Sessions webzine. He formerly served as Music Theory Instructor at the North Carolina School of the Arts, Guitar Instructor at Oakland University, and Director of Guitar Studies at Northwestern Michigan College. He studied with Jesus Silva, Nicholas Goluses, Fred Hand, Oswald Rantucci, and in master classes with Andres Segovia, Janos Starker, and David Russell.
John Wunsch has released seven recordings and toured extensively, appearing in Europe and Japan as well as the United States, in such venues as the Newport Jazz festival, the New York Seagram's Festival, The Philadelphia Seaport Festival, Blues Alley, and the Blue Note. He has received multiple nominations for the "Best Instrumental" category of the New York Music Awards and received numerous grants from Meet the Composer, New York State Council for the Arts, Arts Serve, and The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, among others.
His compositions and performances have been featured on NPR's All Things Considered, television's Entertainment Tonight, and in films and documentaries in the United States and Europe. He has shared performance billings with B.B. King, Dave Brubeck, Alex DeGrassi, Special EFX and others. A published author on Farmland Preservation John's additional interest in environmental issues led him to compose the "Watershed Suite", a multiple intelligence educational experience he has presented to several thousand grade school students.
