Robert Ho.

Bachelor of Music, Guitar performance, Bowling Green State University, 2003.

My first private instructor was John Whitaker, of Bowling Green Ohio, from 1995-1999. After that, my education was from music college and BGSU and all of the fine professors there, and the "school of hard knocks!" (performing).

I began performing with small garage type rock bands just six months after starting guitar! My first few years of playing were filled with garage parties, which then led to playing in clubs by the time I was 18. Once I began to pick up jazz, I soon began playing in jazz clubs, such as Easy Street Cafe in Bowling Green, Ohio, as well as the legendary Rusty's Jazz Cafe in Toledo, Ohio. I also did numerous events, weddings, and recitals during that time. Not content to only play jazz, I also formed a jazz rock fusion group, Paragon, which played throughout NW Ohio and SE Michigan. I recorded two albums with this group. Finally, while at BGSU I also studied classical guitar, and in that capacity did numerous guitar recitals.

I began teaching guitar almost as soon as I was good enough to start playing shows with local garage bands, barely a year after I started! Guitar instruction has remained a part of my life ever since. Everywhere life has taken me, I have sooner or later began teaching guitar to students.