Sergio Sorrentino

"A Superb Musician" (The Wire) - As a performer, he promotes the classical guitar and electric guitar contemporary repertory. As a composer and improviser, his music is based on sonic research and combines elements of contemporary and modern classical music, minimalism, avant-garde, ambient, experimental. His CD Dream - American Music for Electric Guitar (Mode Records) was reviewed and highlighted in the New York Times by Seth Colter Walls as one of the "Week’s Best Classical Music Moments”.

Philip Glass published Sergio Sorrentino's video performance of "Orphée's Bedroom" on his official channels for the #glassminutes series. Glass label Orange Mountain Music released "Orphée's Bedroom" Single on all digital platforms on January 2021; the Single is earning a lot of success. Sergio plays with the great Gavin Bryars ("Sergio Sorrentino has performed many of my works for guitar, and also my ensemble pieces that include the guitar and I have the greatest admiration for his work in this respect") as a member of the Gavin Bryars Italian Ensemble and he plays live and in the studio with Elliott Sharp and John King. He has worked with important composers and musicians like Alvin Curran, Eric Mingus, John Russell, Machinefabriek, David Lang, Steven Mackey, Usui Yasuhiro, Michel Banabila, Tim Brady, Paul Lansky, and many others. As a soloist, Sergio Sorrentino started his international concert career very early and has held solo concerts and masterclasses in many important festivals and venues (like Yale University, Sprague Hall in New Haven, Spectrum in New York, Festival de Música Contemporánea de La Habana in Casa de Las Américas (Cuba), Italian Cultural Institute of Paris, Sala Biala of the Wilanow Museum (Warsaw, Poland), International Guitar Research Conference/University of Surrey (UK), Vortex in London, Performance Room of Luxembourg, Filharmonia Gorzowska Concert Hall, ON Cologne Neue Musik Festival, In Situ Art Society in Bonn, Spectrum in Berlin, Nuova Consonanza Festival in Rome, Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano, AngelicA Festival of Bologna, etc.). He released albums on Mode Records, Orange Mountain Music, RMN Classical, 577 Records, Guitart, Ants Records, Suoni Possibili. He was the protagonist of several broadcasts of RAI Radio 3 (Piazza Verdi, Battiti, Radio 3 Suite) and participated in the television program "Lezioni di Suono" on Rai5, with the OPV Orchestra. Sergio is also an Hannabach Strings International Ambassador.

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