Current Director, Nico Angel, has been with The Arlington School of Music, A Division of Arlington Institute of Music and Performing Arts® since 1967 as Head of the Guitar Department. As President and Head Director for over twenty-five (25) years, he has both directed and managed The Arlington School of Music, A Division of Arlington Institute of Music and Performing Arts®. Nico Angel teaches guitar in Classical, Folk idioms, and poplular specializing in Concert Flamenco Guitar in the style of Sabicas and Paco de Lucia (a very sought-after style of Guitar). Classes are taught at beginning, intermediate, advanced and concert level. Nico Angel has studied guitar in Spain, Mexico, Canada and South America with a litany of grand masters of the Guitar such as Sabicas, Mario Escudero, Serranito, Manolo Sanlucar, and Angel Romero to name a few.

Outside of The Arlington School of Music, A Division of Arlington Institute of Music and Performing Arts®, Nico Angel has toured and performed for over forty (40) years with internationally-known artists from overseas.

Nico Angel’s special teaching style and program for guitar at The Arlington School of Music, a Division of the Arlington Institute of Music and Performing Arts®, involves making a digital video recording of each student’s lesson that they can take home and then use as they watch and study their techniques and interpretations on their computers and TV’s.

Professional recording equipment, lights, and cameras are used throughout the lesson, giving the student successful preparation and understanding for the next lesson. Each of his guitar students is given a glimpse and feel of the “Concert Stage” during each lesson. “A unique format!”