Adam Holzman

Adam Holzman is a Professor of Guitar at the University of Texas at Austin and founder of its renowned Guitar Program (established 1989), offering Bachelors, Masters, and DMA degrees. He also founded the Brevard Summer Festival Institute Guitar Program (2017) and Austin Guitar Society. A celebrated performer, he has won top prizes in international competitions and performed globally at venues like Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and New York's Carnegie Hall. His Naxos recordings of Fernando Sor, Manuel Ponce, Antonio Lauro, and Johann Kaspar Mertz are critically acclaimed.

• Recipient of the Parker C. Fielder Regents Professorship and Maestro Extraordinario title
• Artist-in-residence at Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (Mexico)
• Master class performer under Andres Segovia

His pedagogical legacy includes producing over 10 Guitar Foundation of America prizewinners and 8 Naxos recording artists. His teaching emphasizes technical mastery and interpretive depth, reflected in his students' global professional roles.

Recordings include landmark interpretations of Romantic and Latin American repertoires, praised as 'raising the benchmark' by American Record Guide. He is an exclusive D'Addario artist since 1983.