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CURT GOLDEN
Tuning the Air Co-Producer/Music Director/Performer

Curt Golden is a guitarist and guitar instructor. Curt was born and raised in Virginia into a family that believed in a musical education, and he was given lessons in piano, violin, and cello. Curt first picked up the guitar at the age of 11, and it quickly became his life’s passion. From 1973 to 1976, he studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. After graduating, Curt played in a number of rock, blues, and jazz bands. In 1985, Curt attended the first Guitar Craft seminar, presented by guitarist Robert Fripp, and went on to record and tour extensively with the League of Crafty Guitarists. Fripp named Curt a Guitar Craft instructor in 1986, and since then he has supported Guitar Craft in many capacities. Curt then taught guitar and performed with a number of groups in New York City, including the rock band Desperate Measures.

Curt moved to Seattle in 1998 to join the emerging Seattle Guitar Circle, and in 2001, he co-founded Seattle Circle, the not-for-profit organization created to support the group’s growing performance and educational efforts. He was a founding member of the guitar sextet, Atomic Chamber Ensemble, and performed with them in and around Seattle, including appearances as Bumbershoot and Northwest folklife. In December 2004, he participated in a small performance in the Seattle Circle Performance Studio, and this performance inspired the creation of a location-based production of ensemble guitar music to be performed “in the round.” Curt, Frank Sheldon, and Jaxie Binder joined together as the producers of this new entity, a group of guitarists quickly came together to realize this vision, and from those efforts Tuning the Air was born.

email curtgolden@curtgolden.com

the evolving golden nexus is at www.curtgolden.com

Curt Golden
Golden Music Enterprises
PO Box 70270
Seattle, WA 98127

photo: ingrid pape-sheldon

updated: 09/22/2008