James Piorkowski is a multi-faceted musician who performs as a soloist, is passionate about chamber music, actively composes, arranges, and records, all while serving as a professor of guitar studies, and the program’s head since 1983, at Fredonia State Univ. He was a two-decade member of the now disbanded Buffalo Guitar Quartet that Guitar Player Magazine formerly deemed “one of the world's premiere classical guitar ensembles.” Recorded on school grounds, with one exception, between 2010-13, Nine: The Guitar and Beyond, is a collection of original works written by Mr. Piorkowski.