James Bishop & Cameron O’Connor Perform at Casa Della Zisa
James Bishop-Edwards is an accomplished performer with a rich and varied traditional repertoire and contemporary genres as well. James plays historical instruments of the Renaissance and Baroque periods such as the five-course guitar and eight-course lute. He was head of the Guitar Department at Southern Oregon University in Ashland for several years, and previously on the faculty as Guitar Instructor at California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo.
James has over twenty recordings to his credit, which feature his arrangements of American and European classics. Six books of these arrangements have been published by Mel Bay Publications. A few of his many performance credits include: featured artist at the 1999 and 2005 La Guitarra California Festival, the Santa Barbara Arts Festival, Richard Schneiders’ Lost Mountain Guitar Festival, and soloist with the Santa
Barbara Chamber Orchestra and Jefferson Baroque Orchestra.
Award-winning and critically acclaimed, Cameron O’Connor recently returned from a series of concerts in Japan, is the head of the Guitar Program at Oregon State University. Cameron in the Director of Guitar Studies at Oregon State University.
Cameron graduated cum laude from California State University Northridge, where he studied under Ron Borczon, Ronald Purcell, and Steve Thachuk. He recently received his Master Of Music degree from the Juilliard School in New York City, where he studied with Sharon Isbin. O’Connor studied with William Kanengiser while working on his doctorate at the USC.