Erin Young, Guitar

Erin Young is a musician and arts administrator based in Los Angeles. She received both her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Classical Guitar Performance at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music where she studied with Scott Tennant, Brian Head, and Jason Yoshida. Erin has a passion for early music and was an active member of the USC Baroque Sinfonia, a period-instrument ensemble specializing in music from the seventeenth through mid-eighteenth century. She has performed with the early music ensemble, Ciaramella, and plays frequently with the Los Angeles based Delirium Musicum ensemble.

Erin worked in online music education as Head of Guitar at tonebase.co for over two years and is a certified Suzuki Guitar instructor. She currently works as Operations and Program Director for the international guitar education nonprofit Kithara Project and is actively involved with the Guitar Foundation of America, where she works as an Executive Counselor for the annual GFA Guitar Summit.