The IUPUC Division of Liberal Arts will host classical guitarist John Johns at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 19, in the Columbus Learning Center’s Summerville Room.

The concert is free and open to the public and will include 55 minutes of music and a few minutes of information about the music and composers.

Johns holds degrees from the Peabody Conservatory of Music where he was a scholarship student of Aaron Shearer, and from George Peabody College. He is chair of the Guitar Department at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, which has been recognized as one of the most highly recommended schools internationally.

He first received national recognition when he appeared on the Westinghouse-ABC television special “A Pride of Guitars.” He was again heard nationally in the fall of 1979 on National Public Radio’s “Concert Guitar,” a series devoted to the classical guitar in America. His recording, “John Johns Plays Bach, Bennett, Brouwer and Others,” has received international acclaim by leading guitar periodicals and journals.

For more information about Johns, visit http://people.vanderbilt.edu/~john.johns.