Sergio Hernandez

Adjunct Lecturer, Guitar

Email: sergiohernandez@uttyler.edu
Department: Music

Degrees

• DMA (candidate) Music Performance, Classical Guitar, University of North Texas
• MM University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• BM University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley, Music Education

Biography

Native of Mexico, a bilingual guitarist, SERGIO HERNANDEZ, began to show his musical aptitude at a young age.  He started his formal training at age 15, under the direction of Raul Molano.  Sergio rapidly excelled in his craft in guitar and in 2010, began private guitar studies with Dr. Jonathan Dotson from UT Rio Grande Valley.

Sergio has received numerous prizes, including the first place at the University of Texas Pan-American guitar competition.  He is a recipient of many scholarships, including Carrion De Los Condes Classical Guitar Workshop Scholarship, UWM Chancellor’s Award Scholarship, Agah Classical Guitar Endowment Scholarship and Maria Aurora Arrese Scholarship Endowment.  He has been an active participant in Festival Internacional de Guitarra de Mexico and Carrion De Los Condes Classical Guitar Workshop over the year and in 2014, gave a concert at the US Embassy in Vienna, Austria.

Sergio received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education with a focus on classical guitar at the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley under the tutelage of Dr. Michael Quantz and Dr. Jonathan Dotson.  Sergio holds a Master’s Degree in classical guitar performance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he studied with Cuban Guitar virtuoso Rene Izquierdo.