Program:
Choros No. 1 - Heitor Villa-Lobos
(1887-1959)
from, Suite del Plata No. 1 - Maximo Diego Pujol
Tango (b. 1957)
Murga
Candombe
Danza Característica - Leo Brouwer
(b. 1939)
Gothica: Book of Spooks and Spectres - Phillip Houghton
(1954-2017)
The Old Spanish Castle is Full of Vampires, Sleeping
Deathless Deep…She Wanders as a Mist
Zombie
Headhunter
Faeroe (in the land of faerie)
Bio:
Known for being a "communicative player with natural musicality," American
classical guitarist Nick Cutroneo is a sought-after performer and pedagogue
onstage and online. Nick took an interest in guitar and decided early on to
pursue his passion for music professionally, attending the Pre-College
division at the Juilliard School of Music studying with world renowned
guitarist Antigoni Goni. Nick went on to study at the Hartt School of Music
completing his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Classical Guitar
Performance where he studied with guitar pedagogue Richard Provost; as
well as completing the Long Term Suzuki Pedagogy program. During his
time at Hartt, he was a member of the prestigious Performance 2020
honors program. In addition, he won the Miami String Quartet Competition
and was named finalist in the Hartt School’s Paranov Concerto
Competition. Additionally, he was a semifinalist in the Boston GuitarFest
Adult Competition.
An active performer, Nick has extensively toured throughout the United
States and Italy both as a soloist and chamber musician. He has been
involved with the New England Guitar Quartet, the violin and guitar duo
Tempo del Fuoco and has performed with the Connecticut Virtuosi
Chamber Orchestra, Blackledge Music Inc, the Northeast New Music
Collective just to mention a few. Nick has premiered numerous new works
for the classical guitar including most recently Shadow of the Sun by Frank
Wallace and Stagger Breathing by Colin Britt. Other composers whom he
has worked with include EMMY Award Winning Composer Sean Pallatroni,
Thomas Schuttenhelm, and Dan Lis who wrote and dedicated a Guitar
Concerto for Nick.
Nick maintains an active private teaching studio, working with students in
person in Glastonbury, CT, in addition to students all over the world through
online lessons. He regularly posts educational content on his youtube
channel (youtube.com/nickcutroneo) in addition to his live and studio
performance videos. Nick is on faculty at Central Connecticut State
University, New Britain, CT and Bay Path University, Longmeadow, MA.
Nick provides lectures and masterclasses to guitar societies and guitar
programs throughout the country as well as given a lecture at the Suzuki
Association of the Americas conference and taught at the Volterra
Project. Nick can also be found on his social media accounts with videos
and live streaming practice and performance sessions on
twitch.tv/guitarshreda; Facebook & YouTube.
Nick plays a 2017 “Simple Lattice” Guitar built by Alan H. Chapman of
Chapman & Fisher Guitars.
