Massillon Ohio native Randall Avers began studying guitar at age six while studying at St. Mary’s School and gave his first solo recital at the Gazzetta Recital Hall in Akron at the age 13. During his high school years, he was selected to compete in North Americas largest guitar competition, the GFA International Competition, placing second and becoming the youngest finalist to date.

Since then he has performed in festivals and music series throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, France, Norway, and Sweden. By invitation of the United States Information Service he toured North Africa and Egypt as an Artistic Ambassador.

He won prizes in numerous international competitions including two prizes in the Guitar Foundation of America International Competition, the Yamaha Music France Competition and the Concours Internationale de Guitare Rene Bartoli. He has participated on numerous international competition juries such as the GFA, Aaron Brock Competition, (Canada), Culiacan Competition in Mexico, Norwegian Musicians Masters and a number of regional/national competitions. He is a frequent performing artist/educator at the Classical Minds Festival in Houston.  In 2010, Avers was awarded the prestegious “Kunstnerstipend” from the Norwegian Government for 2010-2011, the most prestigious young artist stipend in Norway.

Currently, Avers resides in Norway and teaches guitar at the Røyken Videregående Stienerskole near Oslo. He performs as a soloist and with the duo “les Frères Méduses” with French guitarist Benoît Albert. “les Frères” released their first recording “Ten Years After…” followed quickly by the DVD “Live at the theatre Ducourneau”.  Avers has released two solo guitar recordings: Vistas (North and South American music) and Puerto Viejo (Music of Spain).  His current focus is on recording the unpublished music by the legendary guitarist Ralph Towner.