Zane Forshee - Fulbright Scholar

Guitarist Zane Forshee, a doctoral candidate at The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and faculty member of the Peabody Conservatory and Preparatory, as well as the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and The Performing Arts Institute, has been recently named as a Fulbright Scholar to Spain.

Zane, who has established a growing performance career with concerts taking him across the United States to Asia, will be using the grant to study, perform, and record works written for the guitar by some of the most influential Spanish composers of the 20th century including: Joaquín Turina, Federico Moreno Torroba, Joaquín Rodrigo, and Vicente Ascencio. He will be working closely with Ignacio Rodes, Professor of guitar at the Oscar Esplá Conservatorio in Alicante, Spain. Mr. Forshee chose to work with Professor Rodes due to his artistic relationship with renowned composer, Vicente Ascencio, as well as guitarist José Tomás, long considered to be one of the most influential Spanish guitar pedagogues of the 20th century. Tomás studied under Regino Sainz de la Maza, Alirio Diaz, and Andrés Segovia, the guitarists who commissioned, edited and premiered these works.