Tony Harmon
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Tony Harmon was born in Riverside, California to Sheila and Jim Harmon. He was introduced to the guitar at an early age by his father and began studying the instrument at the age of eleven at the local YMCA.
By the time Tony was 13 years old, he was becoming an accomplished guitarist and he would devote 6 to 8 hours every day to his practice. He was known to take his guitar everywhere he went...even on family holiday.
At 14 Tony was asked to perform at Loma Linda University by the music faculty and gave his first public performance there to an audience of over 2500.
Tony studied guitar with Patrick Read, Miguel Rubio, George Sakellariou, Ray Reussner, Frederick Noad and Christopher Parkening
At 18 years old Tony traveled to England to further his studies of the guitar and upon his return to the United States, Tony was asked to compose the soundtrack to ABC televisions 'The William Randolf Hearst Story'.
Earlier that year Tony was awarded the Outstanding Instrumentalist award by the Northern California Arts Association.
Tony would later go on to perform in concerts around the country and even performed for President Ronald Reagan and his wife at their western White House in Santa Ynez, CA.
Tony now devotes his time and talents to fund-raising by performing benefit concerts for worthy causes. Since 2004, Tony has performed an annual benefit "Evening of Guitar" concert for the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts ([1])and starting in 2009, Tony performs benefit concerts for the Historic Missions of California:[2]
Tony Harmon has three recordings to his credit to date:
Tony Harmon...on the guitar Live from the Mission La Purisima
Tony Harmon...The Romantic Guitar
and Cancion del Sueno which introduces fellow guitarist Ray Pannell.