Career
He performs frequently as a soloist and collaboratively with numerous groups, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Opera, New World Symphony, inauthentica, Jacaranda and Xtet. His compositions have been widely performed throughout the United States. and abroad. He maintains an active guitar studio there, lectures on a wide range of subjects, and directs the music theory program
As of 2010, he is the acting chair of the Classical Guitar department and Assistant Dean for curriculum.
From 2004-2010, Head led the Guitar Foundation of America as its president He now serves as the Artistic Director.
He received undergraduate degrees from the University of Maryland in both Music and Mathematics, and a master"s degree from the University of Southern California in guitar performance, receiving recognition as Outstanding Thornton School Graduate of 1991. Sketches for Friends (1994)
John McLaughlin: We Know You Know: Reverie for Mahavishnu (2005).