 - .....Charles
Wolzien is a Professor Emeritus at the University of
Colorado College of Music in Boulder. Under his
guidance from its inception in 1979, the CU-Boulder
undergraduate guitar program grew to include masters
and doctoral degrees, a Graduate Teaching
Assistantship position, classes in sight reading,
accompanying, guitar repertoire, chamber music and
guitar ensembles, and an average enrollment of 20 to
25 majors. In 2006, at age 55, Wolzien stepped down as
Associate Dean of the College and took early
retirement from the faculty after 27 years of service.
He remained on staff for an additional year being
voted Professor Emeritus in 2007.
- .....Dr.
Wolzien served as a guest lecturer at Australia's
Sydney Conservatorium of Music during April of 1995;
has conducted master classes in the US, Canada, China,
and Argentina; and is included in the 60th edition of
Marquis's Who's Who in American Education.
Wolzien has written articles on Renaissance guitar
repertoire and proportional notation and is the author
of French Renaissance Guitar Songs, a
performance edition of Adrian Le Roy's 1555 Voix de
ville (Doberman-YPPAN Press).
For nineteen years he
wrote about early guitar repertoire as a reviewer for
both Soundboard and Guitar Review
magazines. His arrangements for flute and guitar are
published by Shawnee Press and Southern Music
Company.
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From the mid
1970's through the decade of the 1980's, Wolzien
appeared both as a soloist and ensemble performer,
presenting hundreds of programs throughout the
continental United States and Hawaii. He was a
featured artist on a Royal Viking Lines trans-Panama
canal cruise with stops in Mexico, South America,
Central America and the Caribbean, and toured in the
US and Canada for Columbia Artists Management. He
presented debut concerts at Carnegie Recital Hall and
the Los Angeles Bach Festival; performed on many major
university and civic-center recital series; and was
selected to perform at national meetings of the
Sonneck Society (for American Music), the College
Music Society, and the American String Teachers
Association/Guitar Foundation.
Beginning in the
1990’s and continuing until his retirement from
CU-Boulder, Wolzien performed extensively on replica
guitars from the Renaissance and Baroque periods as
well as on a small, French six-string guitar built in
the early 1800's. His recitals spanned the globe,
including appearances in the United States, South
America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, North
Africa and the Mediterranean, as well as performances
at numerous European conservatories, including the
American Academy in Rome. His CD album Dances, Grounds
and Songs features repertoire played on these early
instruments.
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In 2007, Charles
moved to Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada,
to establish his oceanside guitar studio next to
Rathtrevor Beach Park. He performed at various Island
venues and served as an adjudicator for the Upper
Island Music Festival before returning to Colorado in
2017, where he continues to enjoy traveling
(especially his recent trips to India, and Russia in
2013), motorcycle touring.
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