Nick Cutroneo

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 New England area, New York, New Jersey and in Italy. Pervious concert seasons included performances at The Juilliard School of Music, The Hartt School, as a part of numerous concert series of churches in New Jersey, a duo performance and participation at a master class at Yale’s “Guitar Day”, several Alumni events for the University of Hartford, in 2005 he was a part of a trio that performed for the Connecticut Guitar Society’s “Guitar Extravaganza Weekend” and a variety of other performances throughout the North East.

Recent concert seasons included a premier of Dan Lis's Guitar Concerto No. 1, the premier Sean Pallatroni's Quartet for Flute, Percussion, Harp and Guitar as well as a performance with the Miami String Quartet on their competition winners’ concert. Mr. Cutroneo has been named finalist in the Hartt School's 2008 Paranov Concerto Competition and Semifinalist in the Boston GuitarFest 2008 adult competition.

Not only a soloist, Mr. Cutroneo is a sought after chamber musician. Currently he’s involved with Tempo del Fuoco, a Violin/Guitar duo with violinist Sarah Larsen. Mr. Cutroneo was a member of the prestigious Performance 20/20 honors chamber music program at the Hartt School as well as participating in several Chamber Music groups based of the Greater Hartford area.

Mr. Cutroneo also maintains an active private teaching studio in Connecticut and is currently on faculty at the University of Connecticut’s Community School of the Arts in Storrs, CT and at MusicMakers Academy in Manchester, CT. Active in the community, Mr. Cutroneo performs regularly at assisted living facilities providing an enjoyable and varied musical and educational experience to the residents. He also provides master classes and lectures to high school music programs.

As a high school senior, Mr. Cutroneo attended the Pre-College division at the Juilliard School of Music and studied with Antigoni Goni. He completed his both his Masters in Classical Guitar Performance with an emphasis in Suzuki Pedagogy as well as his Bachelors in Classical Guitar Performance at The Hartt School of Music studying with Richard Provost and Christopher Ladd.

Mr. Cutroneo has performed in master classes in a chamber setting for Eden-Stell and The Romeros. As a soloist, he’s performed for Andrew York, William Kanengiser, Scott Tennant, Jason Viexau, Ana Vidovic, Carlo Marchione, Martha Masters, Marcin Dylla, Manuel Barrueco, and Oscar Ghiglia.

Nick Cutroneo plays a 2006 Alan H Chapman guitar.