Steve Pappas is fingerstyle/classical guitarist based in Ohio, USA. He graduated from the Dana School of Music (Youngstown State University) in 1986 with a Bachelor of Music Education degree with an emphasis in guitar. For the past 28 years, he has been employed as a music specialist in the Youngstown City Schools and co-owns a teaching facility, the Liberty Lesson Center. Together with multi-instrumentalist Tony Valenzisi he forms the duo String Theory.