Faculty Biography

Petar Kodzas, Lecturer


Contact:
(585) 389-2691
pkodzas@esm.rochester.edu


Departmental Responsibilities:
Applied Guitar
Chamber Guitar


Education:
Eastman School of Music, DMA
Ithaca College, MM
University of Bellgrade, Yugoslavia, BM


Biography:
Petar Kodzas has performed throughout Europe and the eastern United States, with recitals for the Ithaca Winter Guitar Festival, Buffalo Guitar Society, Cornell University, Chataqua Chamber Music Society, Oklahoma State University and the Elmira Symphony. He is a regular performer in Rochester, having appeared in concerts at the Hochstein Music School, Eastman School of Music, and the Memorial Art Gallery. His activities include presentations, master-classes and lectures for Jeunesses Musicales, American String Teachers Association, and College Music Society. Most recently he participated at the International Guitar Festival in Belgrade as a performer, teacher and adjudicator. Together with Joel Brown, Sten Isachsen, and Matthew Ardizzone he is a founding member of the Finger Lakes Guitar Quartet. Mr. Kodzas had participated in several international competitions, including the Guitar Foundation of America Guitar Competition and the distinguished Walter W. Naumburg Competition in New York City, where he was among twenty-five guitarist selected from around the world.

Formerly faculty member at Hochstein Music School, St. John Fisher College and Finger Lakes Community College, he is the first guitarist ever to hold a Jack L. Frank position at Eastman School of Music (CED). Since 2001 he is on faculty of Nazareth College.