About Don Better

Don Better brings to the table over 40 years experience with music as a former audio industry manufacturing representative, and the son of one of Cleveland, Ohio’s first audio store owners. He is also an accomplished guitarist who has played on several jazz and classical recordings, and a member of the faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music since 1989.

Don studied jazz improvisation with Warne Marsh, Gary Foster, Don Ferrara, Toni Rizzi, Dave Koonse, and Bill DeArango, and has studied composition with Moacir Santos. Don’s performance credits include solo classical guitar recitals in Southern California, appearances with Moacir Santos, Trini Lopez, Pacific Gas & Electric, Judy Niemack, Mimi Hines, Ben Vereen, Gary Foster, Ken Peplowski, Michael Feinstein and Don Ferrara. In Cleveland, he has performed with Epicycle, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Ohio Chamber Orchestra and Panoramicos . In addition to his work at Don Better Audio and CIM, Don is a former President-Producer and founder of Azica Records Inc.