USF Guitar Ensemble
Join us for an amazing concert filled with sounds of Spain and South America!
About Us
The USF Guitar Ensemble will delight and exhilarate you with wonderful music from various cultures throughout the world. The ensemble is directed by Dr. Jonathan Godfrey, who joined the faculty at USF in 2023 and teaches guitar, commercial music, and directs the USF Guitar Ensemble. He first gained national recognition in 2011 as the Grand Prize winner of the Boston GuitarFest International Composition Competition for his Sonatina for Guitar Solo. Since then he has become one of the regions most in-demand classical guitarists, session musicians, and composers. He has appeared in over 100 performances with The Florida Orchestra since 2018, including as a concerto soloist, and has also performed with the Sarasota Orchestra, Sarasota Opera, St. Pete Baroque, ensemblenewSRQ, Key Chorale, Gulf Coast Symphony, and members of the Jacksonville and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras. His compositions and arrangements have been commissioned by guitarists worldwide, and by such ensembles as the Via Nova Chorale, Bradenton Symphony Orchestra, The Pops Orchestra of Bradenton and Sarasota, LaGrange Symphony Orchestra, and Túumben Paax.
