About
Whether you succeed or not is irrevalent, there is no such thing. Making your unknown the known is the important thing.
- Georgia O'Keefe
Mark Achuff
"I was playing my guitar, lying underneath the stars, just thanking the Lord for my fingers... for my fingers."
- Paul Simon / from is song "Duncan"
Bio
Mark Achuff is an accomplished guitarist who began studies as a teenager in the Chicagoland area with Verne Fiedler, of the WLS radio orchestra. After relocating to Los Angeles, he studied music and the classical guitar at CSU Fullerton. He had private lessons with guitar greats George Van Eps, and Howard Heitmeyer. He is currently Treasurer and Community Liaison for the American Guitar Society, founded in 1923. AGS specializes in education, concerts, and promotion of the classical guitar. Mark performs regularly in various venues in Southern California. His performances include guitar solos from the Great American Songbook, and the Spanish, Brazilian and Latin American genre.
