Lecturer in Classical Guitar

The lrish guitarist Jerry Creedon was born in Cork and studied guitar from a young age. After graduating from University College Cork, he studied with the famed German guitarist Siegfried Behrend in Germany; a Spanish Government Scholarship enabled him to study at the Andres Segovia Summer School in Santiago de Compostela; the Irish Arts Council grant-aided him to attend masterclasses given by world-famous virtuoso John Williams in Cordoba.       

Jerry Creedon is a Lecturer in Classical Guitar and founder of the Classical Guitar Studies Programme (since 1997) at the state of the art MTU Cork School of Music.

Mr Creedon's pupils have distinguished themselves throughout the years with numerous prizes at various competitions, many teaching posts, performances at venues around Europe, concerts, lectures, composition and writing, and advanced study at the world's most famous institutions.

He has attracted some of the world’s most famous guitarists to perform and teach at the MTU Cork School of Music including John Williams, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Xue Fei Yang, Roland Dyens, Fabio Zanon, Craig Ogden, David Leisner, Christoph Jaggin, Jacob Lindberg and William Carter.

Jerry is an experienced musician and has performed in Ireland, Germany and Spain, both as a soloist and a chamber musician. He has appeared with numerous orchestras and chamber ensembles and has his own jazz ensemble with which he performs at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. He has performed at the National Concert Hall, universities, and numerous festivals. Jerry has recorded CDs of music by Sanz, Pujol and Villa-Lobos and has recently formed the highly acclaimed Irish Guitar Quartet.