Teaching Professor, Music | Applied Instructor, Guitar
- DMA, University of Southern California, Classical Guitar
- MM, University of Southern California, Classical Guitar
- BA, SUNY - Buffalo State, Music - Classical Guitar
- Artist Diploma, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Classical Guitar Performance
Dr. Joshua Moore is a Classical and Jazz guitarist based in San Diego, CA. Josh is a frequent performer, both as a classical and jazz guitarist. He has performed throughout the US and Canada for many guitar societies and classical music series, including concerts for the Phoenix Guitar Society, Sacramento Guitar Society, the Great Lakes Guitar Society, the Ventura Guitar Society, the NAU Jazz Festival, the Chandler Jazz Festival, and many others. In competitions Josh has received top prizes in multiple guitar competitions including, the Pacific Guitar Festival, ASTA Aaron Green Guitar Competition, the Sierra Nevada Guitar Competition, the Mississippi Guitar Competition, the Philadelphia Guitar Competition, the Southern Guitar Competition, and Hamilton International Guitar Competition among others.
Josh holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts, with a minor in Jazz Guitar from the University of Southern California where he studied under Scott Tennant and Bill Kanengiser. Additionally Josh holds a Professional Studies Diploma from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under Sergio Assad, a Master of Music degree with a minor in Jazz Guitar from the University of Southern California under Scott Tennant, and a Bachelor of Music Performance degree from Buffalo State College under Evan Drummond. While at USC, Josh studied Jazz guitar under Bruce Forman, and Frank Potenza, and took jazz improv with Bob Mintzer.
Josh is a full-time faculty member of the Northern Arizona University Kitt School of Music, and an applied lessons faculty at the University of San Diego. At NAU, Josh directs the guitar program as well as teaches classes and coaches ensembles in the Jazz Studies Department.