Dragoș Ilie

Teaching

Teaching

Assistant Professor at the George Enescu National University of Arts in Iași, with masterclasses and courses on three continents. His teaching joins the classical guitar tradition he inherited with what he learned recovering from injury.

Black and white portrait of Dragoș Ilie smiling, holding his guitar

At the university

Iași and Austin

Ilie teaches guitar at the George Enescu National University of Arts in Iași, where he holds the post of Assistant Professor. He returned to the city after nine years of study in the United States.

At the University of Texas at Austin he spent four years as teaching assistant in the studio of Adam Holzman, one of the most respected figures in classical guitar teaching, while completing his own doctorate.

  1. Marius ȚîmpăuOctav Băncilă National College of Art, Iași
  2. Daniel DragomirescuIași
  3. Andrew ZohnSchwob School of Music, Columbus State University
  4. Adam HolzmanThe University of Texas at Austin
Close view of the right hand above the soundhole and rosette
Film still from Balada, Zabola Estate

Body Mapping

What an injury taught him

As a student at Columbus State, a guitar-related back injury cut his practice to a few minutes a day for nearly two years. He kept working by studying scores away from the instrument, and he kept competing. Some of his first international prizes came in that period.

The turning point was the Body Mapping for Musicians course at Columbus State. Body Mapping teaches musicians an accurate picture of how their bodies are built and move, so that they play with less strain. Ilie went on to train toward becoming a licensed practitioner, and the method runs through his teaching.

The class helped me understand how a musician’s body works and also helped me integrate good alignment to the everyday life.

Dragoș Ilie, Columbus State University, 2018

Those 15 or 20 minutes of performing on stage were the minutes I really had to make music and nothing else really mattered, so it was liberating in a way.

Dragoș Ilie, Marfa Public Radio, 2020

Courses

Masterclasses, camps and seminars

  1. 2023–2026

    Enescu Experience

    A summer masterclass for young violinists and guitarists, taught with the violinist Alexandru Tomescu at Cabana Caraiman, high in the Bucegi Mountains. More

    Bucegi MountainsRomania

  2. 2024–2026

    ICon Arts international camp

    An international music camp, held each year since 2024.

    Romania

  3. Ongoing

    Guitar Lab

    Guitar seminars held in five Romanian cities.

    Five citiesBucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Târgu Mureș, Bacău, Suceava

  4. April 2024

    Masterclass, Guitar in the Big Bend

    At Sul Ross State University, during a weekend of concerts in Alpine and Marfa.

    Alpine, TexasSul Ross State University

  5. Online

    tonebase

    Lessons on Richard Rodney Bennett’s Impromptus and on Body Mapping for the hands and arms. tonebase

    Worldwide

He has also taught masterclasses and workshops for guitar societies, festivals and universities in the United States, Europe and Asia. Masterclass requests go to management.

For students

Scores

Arrangement

Porumbescu, Balada

Notated so it can be played as a solo or as a duo.

Composition

Prelude No. 1, Indecis

A two-minute prelude for solo guitar.

Available on request through management.