Dr. Isaac Bustos

Classical guitarist and educator Dr. Isaac Bustos enjoys an extensive performing career that has taken him to Canada, Central America, Europe, China, and all over the US. Bustos has made several Radio and Television appearances and is in demand as clinician and master class teacher invited to perform in some of the most prestigious festivals around the globe.

Bustos has acquired a number of top prizes in over 12 major international competitions, along with premiering new guitar works by major composers. He has performed with award-winning ensembles and is a founding member of the Texas Guitar Quartet, which has released two critically acclaimed discs.

Isaac holds a Bachelor of Music degree in guitar performance from the University of New Hampshire, where he was the only guitarist to ever hold a full scholarship, a Master of Music degree and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked under the guidance of renowned American guitarist Adam Holzman.

Bustos has been on faculty at Texas A&M University and was artistic director of the prestigious Texas A&M Guitar Symposium and competition. He currently serves on the faculty at the University of Texas – San Antonio Department of Music where he is head of guitar studies.

Hailed by the New York Times as “a voice with considerable warmth,” lyric-soprano Sarah Davis has been recognized as a gifted performer both on the recital and operatic stage. She has premiered works by American composers: John Harbison, Barbara White, Eliza Brown, Eric Nathan, and Elliott Carter at Tanglewood Music Center, SongFest, Radio France, and Network for New Music. In the month prior to the pandemic taking hold, Ms. Davis performed a glorious Liederabend at Schwartzsche Villa in Berlin, Germany, singing Canteloube, Rachmaninov, Sibelius and Berg’s Sieben Frühe Lieder with pianist Chris Cartner. Earlier this year Ms. Davis joined the San Antonio Camerata, performing Faure’s La Bonne Chanson and at SongFest in Los Angeles, performed John Harbison’s Crossroads for Chamber Ensemble to celebrate the composer’s 85th birthday. Next up is a collaboration with singer-songwriter & pianist, Anthony Garcia at Mason’s Odeon Theater, lieder selections at the Atkins Goethe Conference, Vivaldi’s Gloria with Tivy High School Choir and First Presbyterian Church of Kerrville, and an interdisciplinary project singing Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 2 at the University of the Incarnate Word. Notable concert and operatic roles credits include: Verdi Requiem, Mahler Symphony No. 2, Brahms Requiem, Beethoven Missa Solemnis and Ninth Symphony, Mimi in Puccini’s La Boheme, Mozart’s Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Massenet’s Cendrillon (Cinderella), Floyd’s Susannah, Stravinsky’s Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress, as well as Krystyna Zyvulska, a Holocaust survivor in Jake Heggie’s one-act opera, Another Sunrise. Sarah holds degrees from Trinity University and the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University.