William Coulter is an internationally acclaimed, Grammy® Award-winning master of the steel-string guitar. His most recent recording, Partita Americana with Canadian violin virtuoso Edwin Huizinga and mandolinist Ashley Broder, is a collection of Baroque and Traditional music – featuring a blending of music by JS Bach with traditional and contemporary American fiddle tunes. Coulter has been music director for Tomáseen Foley’s A Celtic Christmas since 1998, and has performed with the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, Apollo’s Fire, and many other ensembles.  Collaborations have been a mainstay of his career, including tours and recordings with Gourd Music artists Neal Hellman and Barry and Shelley Phillips; classical guitar virtuoso Benjamin Verdery, and Irish flute wizard Brian Finnegan. Tours have taken him around the states and to Ireland, Europe, Taiwan, New Zealand, Chile, and most recently Australia. Coulter teaches classical guitar at UC Santa Cruz and at many summer camps and festivals. Coulter earned degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and UC Santa Cruz.