Nick Cutroneo, classical guitarist

Known for being a “communicative player with natural musicality,”Nick Cutroneo is an up and coming classical guitarist of the new generation. As an active performer, Mr. Cutroneo has performed extensively throughout the United States and Italy. As a highly sought after chamber musician, Mr. Cutroneo is currently involved with the New England Guitar Quartetas well as a flute and guitar duo with flutist Melanie Chirignan. Previously, he toured extensively with 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. During his time at The Hartt School, Mr. Cutroneo was a member of the prestigious Performance 20/20 honors chamber music program.

As an advocate for new music, Mr. Cutroneo has premiered many 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.

Devoted to not only the standard repertoire, Mr. Cutroneo has premiered many new works for the classical guitar by EMMY Award Winning Composer Sean Pallatroni, Thomas Schuttenhelm, Frank Wallace, and a Guitar Concerto written and dedicated to him by Dan Lis. Mr. Cutroneo was featured in the Miami String Quartet Competition Winnersʼ Concert. He has also been named finalist in the Hartt Schoolʼs Paranov Concerto Competition and Semifinalist in the Boston GuitarFest Adult Competition.

As a high school senior, Mr. Cutroneo attended the Pre-College division at the Juilliard School of Music and studied with Antigoni Goni. He earned both his Masters and Bachelors in Classical Guitar Performance at the Hartt School of Music studying with Richard Provost. During his studies as a masters student at Hartt, Mr. Cutroneo completed the Long Term Suzuki Pedagogy program studying with David Madsen. He is the first person in the country to hold a masters degree in Classical Guitar Performance with an emphasis in Suzuki Guitar Pedagogy.

Mr. Cutroneo currently serves on faculty at Central Connecticut State University and Bay Path University, Longmeadow, MA. In addition, he maintains an active private teaching studio based out of Glastonbury, CT.

Straight-back chair, with no arms; access to an electrical outlet.