John Huston Virtuoso Guitar

About John Huston Virtuoso Guitar

John Huston is a multi-faceted musical artist with a diverse set of talents and boundless energy to produce music that connects with the heart and inspires deeper experiences.

As a performer, John has distinguished himself as one of the most exciting and expressive guitarists of his generation. When he first came on the scene, the Southern Arts Foundation hailed him “…one of the finest young guitarists today”, Guitart International has praised him as “a formidable talent”, The Fort-Worth Star Telegram described his “considerable energy and impressive virtuosity”, and La Stampa has called his playing “…mesmerizing.” The accolades for Mr. Huston’s performance are numerous. He won First Prize in the 2001 Aranjuez Strings International Guitar Competition. Additionally, he has won prizes in a number of other major national and international competitions including the Concours International de Guitare de Lachine and the American String Teachers Association National Guitar Competition, among others.

John has performed in the finest concert halls in the Southeast United States, including Atlanta Symphony Hall, Spivey Hall, the Shwartz Center for Performing Arts, the fabulous Fox Theater, the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center, City Springs Theater, Legacy Hall at Columbus, and Hugh Hodgson Hall in Athens. John has been frequently invited to perform at international guitar festivals including the 2006 Guitar Foundation of America Convention, the 2011 Guitar on the Mediterranean Festival in Cervo, Italy, the 2009 Austin Peay State University Summer Guitar Workshop and Competition, the 2011 Fort Worth Guitar Guild Music Festival and the 2011 and 2012 University of Louisville Guitar Festival and Competition. Additionally, John has recorded two solo CD’s: Three Centuries of Music for the Classical Guitar (1997), and Nocturno (2002). Guitart International hailed Nocturno as “a truly satisfying CD with great depth and a program rich in diversity with much to say…devastatingly beautiful and challenging… the performance is at once expansive and yet conveys the intimacy required for sustained interest.” John’s collaboration with guitarist Richard Todd resulted in the disc Pura Vida (2011) as the Huston-Todd Guitar Duo. His ongoing collaboration with Angelina Galashenkova as the duo 9-String Theory resulted in their amazing CD 9-String Theory (2014).

John has a varied and diverse performing schedule. In addition to frequent performances as 9-String Theory, John performed with the NuEnsemble Trio with Cleveland P. Jones and Okorie Johnson. In April 2019, John was featured in eight sold-out performances of Maria de Buenos Aires by Astor Piazzolla with Daniel Binelli and the Atlanta Opera. In recent years, John has also performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Balalaika Society, the Atlanta Guitar Guild Orchestra, the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra, and the Morehouse and Spelman College Choirs, among others.