Faculty
paul musso, Guitarist and Guitar program director
Paul Musso is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Guitar program at the University of Colorado Denver. He has been with UC Denver for twelve years teaching fretboard theory and commercial guitar styles, various ensembles, and applied guitar studies.
Musso is a freelance guitarist and has performed throughout the Colorado area in many diverse musical settings including the Colorado Symphony, the Boulder Festival Orchestra, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Westcliff Jazz Festival. He is the author of two Mel Bay books for jazz guitar - Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar/Teaching Your Guitar to Walk and Graded Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar Solos. Musso has also contributed to the publication Fingerstyle Guitar.
Musso currently lives in Denver where he maintains a career playing guitar in straight-ahead jazz and solo guitar settings. His most recent publication is a contribution to Mel Bay's 2000 Jazz Guitar, where Paul shares the bill with greats like Johnny Smith, John Abercrombie, Buckey Pizzarelli, George Van Eps, Andy Summers and many others.
Paul teaches fingerboard melody/harmony, applied jazz guitar, theory and the styles ensemble.
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Additional information on Paul Musso.
Paul Musso Performance Gallery
Paul Musso's Personal Site
Paul.Musso@cudenver.edu
303.556.8873
PAUL MUSSO
Assistant Professor
of Music.
University of Colorado, B.S. M.M.
University of Denver, M.M.
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