Michael Cadiz

"I was born in 1983 outside of Baltimore. My mother is from Michigan and my father, from the Philippines, hence the Spanish name. I came to the guitar initially as a player. I studied formally with Michael Nicolella, Jean-Pierre Billet and Sergio Assad and then also played popular music with friends and bands over the years. I built my first guitar when I was fifteen years old with the now renowned pickup maker Jason Lollar. After many years of studying guitar and playing music, I became interested in guitar building again and quickly committed myself entirely to it.

I studied with Rick Davis and Cat Fox at the Sound Guitar Workshop and then eventually and probably most importantly to my development as a maker of classical guitars, I studied with Robert Ruck. For many years after that, I shared a shop in West Seattle with a good friend and guitar builder David Myka (...)"

(source : Michael Cadiz's Website)