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Dr. Andrew Wilder is an award-winning guitarist with over twenty years of professional performing, recording, and teaching experience. He has performed as a soloist and in ensembles nationally and internationally, instructed over five hundred students, taught more than thirty higher education courses, and recorded and produced multiple critically acclaimed studio albums. He holds teaching positions at University of Colorado Boulder and University of Tennessee Southern.

In his teens, Wilder moved to Europe to study in the Istituto Musicale Pareggiato Della Valle D’Aosta in Aosta, Italy, and the Conservatorio Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, Switzerland, where he completed two Artist Diplomas in Guitar Performance under the instruction of Lorenzo Micheli. Wilder then completed a Bachelor of Music in Guitar Performance with Dr. Andrew Zohn at Columbus State University and a master’s degree in Music Performance with Dr. Dieter Hennings at the University of Kentucky. He also studied interpretation and transcription extensively in private lessons and classes with Paul Galbraith at the Musik-Akademie in Basel, Switzerland. Wilder then went on to complete a Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder with Dr. Nicolò Spera.

As a soloist, Wilder has performed nationally and internationally, including concerts and teaching at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico; BorGuitar Festival in Borgo Val Di Taro, Italy; Escuela Nacional De Música in Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Solstice Symposium for Classical Guitar in Higganum, CT; University of Louisville Guitar Festival and Competition; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Artists Series; Virtuoso Guitar Series in Nashville, TN; and the Columbus State University Guitar Symposium. Wilder has also been active in chamber music, including collaborations with classical guitarist Xavier Jara.

Wilder is passionate about expanding the repertoire of the classical guitar and actively researches, transcribes, and premieres  pieces for solo guitar and chamber ensembles, working extensively with the music of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Mozart, and Haydn. This artistic focus generated a project to perform the thirty-movement complete lute works of J.S. Bach on the guitar from memory, which Wilder presented in recitals in the United States and Mexico. He then went on to record and produce an album of the entire cycle, which was released in 2020. More recently he transcribed and recorded an album of works by W.A. Mozart and J. Haydn, which was released in fall 2024. This collection consists of fourteen new classical guitar transcriptions, including Mozart’s Allegro K.626b/16, a composition that was rediscovered, verified, and published by the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation in 2021.

As a musician and an educator, Wilder emphasizes innovation, creativity, and collaboration as indispensable aspects of artistic life and musical growth. Whether it is through performance, recordings, scholarship, or teaching; his artistic goal remains to enrich the lives of others through music, and to encourage intrinsic musical potential.

Dr. Andrew Wilder is an Augustine Strings Artist.

Resume / C.V. available upon request.

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