Patrick Lui

About Patrick Lui

Patrick Lui is a masterful concert artist and a distinguished classical guitar teacher, celebrated for his exceptional talent and unwavering dedication. For over four decades, he has inspired and nurtured countless students, guiding them to over three hundred prizes and accolades. His students have triumphed at prestigious competitions such as the Guitar Festival America - Youth Division, James Stroud Guitar Competition, and have performed as young featured artists at the Carnegie Hall in New York. Many of his former students have become successful performing artists, accomplished luthiers, and even a Grammy Award-winning music producer.

Since 2005, Patrick has been the Director of Guitar Studies at Weaver Academy for Performing and Visual Arts, where he continues to develop students to become exceptional musicians. His remarkable teaching and musicianship have earned him a place as one of the most important classical guitar teachers for pre-college level students in the United States.

A celebrated concert artist, lecturer, clinician, and judge, Patrick has enthralled audiences with his fiery performances and poetic lyricism. His playing has been praised by music critics as "demonstrating virtuosity but also a lyric beauty and silky smoothness he has rarely heard." Patrick's performances are an inspired synthesis of artistic vision and technical mastery.  

Patrick is one of the few full scholarship students of the legendary guitar pedagogue Aaron Shearer, known as the Dean of the American Classical Guitar. He also served as a teaching assistant for Professor Frank Koonce and an Interim Instructor of Guitar at Arizona State University.

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Patrick is also a half of the Patrick Lui and Carlos Castilla Guitar Duo.