As a private clarinet instructor, Shaun Michael Guzman dedicates his time and talents to producing well-prepared and thoughtful musicians. His students have gone on to become band directors, private clarinet instructors, and continue to give clinics at the Texas Music Educators Association, and Texas Bandmasters Association to band directors, as well as being part of his pedagogical group, Clariphonic Collaborative. Within his clarinet studio, he has established several clarinet ensembles, which have now been actively performing for the last thirteen years.

As an artist for ALRY Publications, Shaun serves as a published arranger for clarinet choir. Currently, he has published Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol and Mozart’s Serenade No. 10 in B-flat Major, K. 361/370a. Presently, Mr. Guzman is a D’Addario Woodwind Artist and has been a D’Addario Woodwind Method Clinician for the San Antonio and South Texas areas for the last nine years.

Currently, he is the bass clarinetist of the Prickly Pear Clarinet Choir, a local clarinet ensemble that has performed in the ClarinetFest conferences in Kansas, Florida, Tennessee, and Colorado. Mr. Guzman serves as the third clarinetist/bass clarinetist for Alamo City Symphony Viva, second clarinetist/bass clarinetist in the University of Incarnate Word Orchestra, clarinetist/alto clarinetist for Heart of Texas Concert Band, and performs with several small ensembles/productions. Within the Alamo City Arts, he serves as Event Coordinator, Music Librarian, and Wind Coordinator for Alamo City Symphony Viva. In addition to maintaining an active studio and regularly performing, Shaun manages a local music store, High School Music Service, in San Antonio, Texas. Shaun Guzman has studied with Dr. David Pino at Texas State University and Ruth Aguirre.

Teaching Philosophy.

Shaun’s teaching philosophy has always been to break things down to help students to comprehend ideas, and then to build on that comprehension, once established. He feels that it is imperative to encourage and teach students to not just play or read music, but to feel music with both the body and mind; this, to him, is where true musicianship is formed and flourishes.