Andrew York was born in 1958 in the United States and is one of the remarkable, most visible and innovative classical guitarist-composers of our time. He grew up in Woodbridge, Virginia, and graduated from Gar-Field Senior High School. He went on to study the guitar at James Madison University. In 1980 he was awarded a Bachelor of Music degree in classical guitar performance from this university. He completed his Master of Music degree in studio guitar at the University of Southern California in 1986 (magna cum laude). While studying guitar in he university he was granted numerous awards, including the Jack Marshall Memorial Scholarship, the Manilow Scholarship and the Del Amo Foundation Gra...