About your guitar teacher

Charles Ernest Watson, Jr is a North American composer and guitarist. A child prodigy from a family line of musicians and artists, he began composing and performing on the guitar at age 9. Watson is also an accomplished pianist and known for his transcriptions for guitar of piano masterpieces from the Romantic and 20th century musical eras and for his contemporary scores and symphonic productions for modern dance troupes, traditional ballet, and theater. A second generation student of Joe Pass, he currently teaches theory, technique, and performance for guitar, bass and drums at Arizona's foremost music academy and has been an instructor there for 6 years. Charles is a seasoned public performer, accomplished in the recording studio, has put out numerous CD albums, and is adept at sight-reading and writing scores on the fly. He performes at many community, public,and private events, music festivals, restaurants and corporate events and heads up two Arizona based stage bands. Charles recorded his 2008 album with Universal Platinum Plus Records, Nashville, produced by Robert Metzgar and Tony Migliore, "Time for Change, with one of his bands, "Charles Watson & Hollow Council."