Leo Welch

Leo Welch, Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Professor, joined the College of Music at Florida State University in 2003. His responsibilities include coordination of College community engagement activities, budgeting, coordination of guest artists, Hall and calendar management, promotion of the College, and development activities.

As an editor and arranger, Dr. Welch has published over 50 compositions, arrangements and editions of solo, chamber, and guitar ensemble works with the FJH Music Company, Mel Bay Publications, Tuscany Publications (Theodore Presser), D’Oz Publications, and Class Guitar Resources. Welch's arrangement of G.P. Telemann’s Trio Sonata in A Minor was featured in a guitar chamber music concert at the White House in December of 2004. As an educator and pedagogue, he has presented sessions at many state, regional and national MENC conferences concerning teaching class guitar in the public schools. He has also written articles relating to guitar education and guitar pedagogy that have been featured in the American String Teacher, Soundboard (Guitar Foundation of America), and GuitArt International periodicals. Welch remains active as a performer; recent performances included chamber music concerts at Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall), Spivey Hall (Atlanta) and the Peabody Conservatory of Music as well as other venues across the country.

Dr. Welch received his Doctor of Music, and Master of Music in performance from Florida State University, where he studied classical guitar with Bruce Holzman. His advanced classical guitar study includes the performance of Bach transcriptions with Nicholas Goluses and jazz guitar studies with Gene Bertoncini at the Eastman School of Music. In addition to his administrative duties, Welch also teaches music education courses, guitar ensemble and applied jazz guitar.