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Orest Dziatyk, also known as Hawk, grew up in Chicago. He started playing piano at age 8, clarinet at age 10(he also took 4 years of violin), began playing guitar at 18 and got into classical guitar a few years later. Hawk attended G.I.T., Hollywood, CA. Then Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, where he majored (earned BAs) in Classical Guitar and Music Theory and minored in piano and harpsichord. He also studied flamenco guitar with Paul Henry(who is a student of Andre Segovia), at Roosevelt University. He has studied and or played with Paul Gilbert, Bruce Bouillet, Tom Hess, and George Bellas. He studied with world renowned pipe organist and harpsichordist David Schrader. Studied chapman stick with Frank Joliff and studied with Preston Reed. Hawk is absorbed in his music and fuses rock with symphonic music and modern progressive elements through composition, orchestration and performance. Over the last 25 years in Chicago he has gathered quite a local following in 3+ bands, playing original metal, shred, classical, neoclassical and flamenco. He is currently in the studio working on instructional videos, composing and recording new material. More recently Hawk performed in concert with Uli Roth at the Sky Academy 2007, in L.A. CA. Some techniques he teaches/plays are metal, neoclassical, traditional classical, flamenco and shred and his speciality or two handed tapping. His musical influences/inspiration include - Stanley Jordan, Bach Vivaldi, Mozart, Stravinsky, List, Paganini, Schenker, Ule Roth, and Malmsteen.
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