Joseph Mayes
Joseph Mayes has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe on both guitar and lute. He is a professor of music at Rowan University where he heads the Guitar and Early Music programs and holds degrees from Thomas Edison College and Shenandoah University. He is well known, not only as a performer, but as an outstanding source of guitar scholarship witnessed in his many publications in both periodicals and music publishing houses. He has studied with some of the most notable guitarists of the century including Andres Segovia, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, and Jose Tomas. He has recorded 4 solo CD’s of both guitar and lute music.
