Caleb Salguero

A young man with short dark hair and a slight smile, wearing a gray polo shirt with dark collar, standing outdoors with a modern building and landscaped greenery in the background.

School of Music Faculty
Faculty Lesson Instructor

PIANO

In 2023, pianist Caleb Salguero received his Master of Fine Arts in Piano Performance from UC Irvine, studying with Dr. Lorna Griffitt. As a graduate teaching assistant, his duties involved accompanying UCI’s choral groups and teaching piano. He is regularly invited as an instructor for UCI’s Summer Academies in the Arts Chamber Music Intensive. It is a program created for experienced high school students for the purpose of college and career preparation.

In June 2023, he received a fellowship to the Montecito International Music Festival where he studied with John Perry and Peter Takacs and his staff included accompanying string masterclasses and coaching junior chamber music participants. He was invited in 2021 to attend the Orfeo International Music Festival in Vipiteno, Italy with scholarship. In 2019, he attended the prestigious Philadelphia Young Pianists' Academy festival where he worked under world-renowned pianists such as Gary Graffman, Dang Thai Son, Ching-Yun hu and others