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Corey Christiansen is a recording artist, writer, educator, and performer. He has played and taught in literally every type of situation around the globe.

Awakening, Corey’s first album as a leader, was the first release on Mel Bay Records in 2004 and received critical acclaim throughout the jazz community. MB3: Jazz Hits Vol. 1 marked a great leap in his national and international visibility as a player and producer. Jazz Hits Vol. 1 spent three weeks as the No. 1 jazz recording on North American Jazz radio. His first performance DVD, Vic Juris & Corey Christiansen: Live at the Smithsonian Jazz Café, was released in July 2006. Jazzwise reviewer Mike Flynn gave the recording four stars, noting that “Christiansen is well versed in the guitar’s sonic heritage and his judicious sense of phrasing finds him light-fingered even on the densest of changes and positively euphoric on his ballad work.”

Corey has written several method books for Mel Bay Publications as well as articles for many of the major guitar magazines and DownBeat magazine. Corey currently teaches at Utah State University and the famed Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. He is also an artist-in-residence at Atlanta Institute of Music (Atlanta, GA), and Broadway Music School (Denver, CO).

Corey plays a Pat Martino Signature model.

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