Larry Ferrara

Welcome to Music Appreciation.Com. It is taught by Larry Ferrara, who is serving on the faculty of City College of San Francisco, UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and is a recording artist, writer, performer, and classical guitarist. I am happy to present this web site to you either as a conjunct to the course Music Appreciation 27A, at City College of San Francisco, or as general music knowledge and appreciation portal. I hope you enjoy it and gain some insight from it. Below is some biographical information about me. Thank you for stopping by. Lawrence Ferrara has the distinction of being the first guitarist to receive a master's degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His teachers have included Julian Bream, George Sakellariou and Michael Lorimer. An active teacher himself, Mr. Ferrara heads the guitar programs at City College of San Francisco and University of California at Berkeley. He also serves on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Lawrence Ferrara has performed as guitar soloist with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, the Bay Chamber Symphony, the Classical Philharmonic, the Vallejo and Merced Symphonies as well as the San Francisco Conservatory’s Chamber Orchestra and New Music Ensemble. Among many awards, Mr. Ferrara was twice prize winner at the Carmel Classic Guitar Competition and received special recognition at the Toronto Guitar International Competition. He has also served on the Music Advisory Panel to the National Endowment of the Arts and has a solo CD titled American Guitar Music on the VGo label. In addition Mr. Ferrara is the author and performer of a sequence of music books titled The Student Repertoire Series for Guitar with accompanying CDs, published and recorded by Guitar Solo of San Francisco.