Marc Teicholz, classical guitarist, is the first prize-winner of the 1989 International Guitar Foundation of America competition, a winner in New York’s 1991 “East-West Artists” competition, the 1986 Paganini competition, and a finalist in the 1992 Pro Musicis competition. Marc Teicholz has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, receiving critical acclaim for his recitals and master classes. Mr. Teicholz has toured Russia, Poland, and Switzerland as well as Southeast Asia, Fiji, and New Zealand under the auspices of the U.S.I.A. Artistic Ambassador program. He has appeared as a soloist with the Pacific Symphony, Far Eastern Orchestra in Russia, the Metropolitan Orchestra in Lisbon, Portugal, the Cordoba Orchestra in Spain, the California Symphony, New Millennium Strings, the Santa Rosa Symphony, the Oakland Symphony, the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, and the Maui Symphony. Mr. Teicholz also toured extensively with the popular quartet, "A Festival of Four." He has recorded several solo CD's for Naxos, Sugo, and Menus and Music, as well as the pilot soundtrack for George Lucas’ “Young Indiana Jones.” New releases include a Delos recording with soprano Laura Claycomb and a solo CD of waltzes recorded on vintage instruments with GSI.

He is on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and at California State University East Bay. Recently he has participated at the Moab Music Festival, the National Guitar Summer Workshop, the California Summer Arts Festival and the Weathersfield Music Festival in Vermont. Marc Teicholz graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, 1985, received a master's degree from the Yale School of Music, 1986, and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley at the Boalt School of Law, 1990.

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