C. J. Tywoniak

Who is C. J. Tywoniak?

C.J. Tywoniak is an American electric guitarist and Paul Green's most accomplished student.

Tywoniak was born in San Mateo, California. He stood out in the rock music documentary film Rock School as a "guitarist who can play better than most of the guitarists seen on 'Saturday Night Live.'" As a 12-year old in the movie that was filmed in 2002-3 and produced in 2005, he played riffs from Carlos Santana, Frank Zappa and The Kinks. He has studied with Joe Stump and has played with Jon Anderson, Adrian Belew, Ike Willis, John Wetton, Max Johnson, Brad Roberts, Peter Frampton, Alice Cooper and Eddie Vedder. He has received a scholarship offer from the Berklee College of Music and was accepted at the University of Miami. As as result of the movie he was invited to perform on MTV's Total Request Live. Roger Ebert suggests he could have been destined for the Juilliard School. He is currently attending the University of Miami and teaching at the Paul Green's School of Rock in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, in his free time. He also appeared in the 2012 film Rock of Ages.