Jim McCutcheon: BIO 2007
Jim McCutcheon is a versatile musician
whose activities include classical guitar performance,
teaching, arranging and composing. His performances
across the USA and in Russia both solo and with oboist
Mark Twehues have elicited excellent reviews, including
this one from the St. Petersburg
newspaper Nevskoe
Vrema: “The meticulous technique and deep
understanding of the music left a lasting impression.
Jim
studied with the late Bunyan Webb and has participated
in numerous master classes with Abel Carlevaro, Carlos
Barbosa-Lima, Douglas Niedt, Segundo Pastor and others.
He received his Bachelor of Music in Guitar Performance
at WSU in 1978 studying under Lawrence Pitzer, and
received a M.M. in Music Education here in 1991 studying
guitar with Clare Callahan.
He
directs the guitar program at Wright State University
and is currently Artist-in-Residence in Guitar at the
University of Dayton. With his wife, Debbie, he owns
McCutcheon Music, a family-oriented music store and
teaching facility in Centerville, OH.
Jim
has been the Guitar Advisor to the National Federation
of Music Clubs
for over a decade, and he selects
repertoire for their Festival Bulletin. He writes CD
reviews for Soundboard, the journal of the Guitar
Foundation of America. As an Ohio Arts Council Touring
Artist, he performs recitals for arts councils as well
as school programs, and also does many workshops for
children each year on the
Science of Music, since
his first degree was in physics.
On Sunday mornings from 9-10 am he
hosts “The Intimate Guitar,”
a weekly radio program on
Dayton Public Radio (FM 88.1). He is
Director of
Concerts at the Dayton Art Institute, and serves as
president
of the Dayton Classical Guitar Society.
Jim was the first recipient of Wright State University’s
Distinguished Alumni Award in Music, and recently
received that school’s alumni award from the School of
Graduate Studies. He received the Muse Machine Prism
Award for his extensive work with that organization, and
also a 2006 Individual Artist Fellowship from Culture Works
for his compositions and educational activities. His second CD for children, "A Day with the
Guitar Man,” received the 2003 Parents’ Choice
Foundation Silver Award.