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SERGIO GARCΝA-MARRUZ – GUITAR

M.F.A. in Music, National School of Arst, Havana, Cuba. Baccalaureate, Pre-Universitario del Vedado, Saϊl Delgado. Participated in Don Sebesky's “Film Scoring Workshop,” the “Professional Composer's Workshop,” and completed the “Paths' Electronic Music Seminars.” Studied classical guitar with Isaac Nicola, Leo Brouwer and Martha Cuervo. Former lecturer-demonstrator for the Hispanic Academy of Media Arts and Science, composer/sound designer for Marymount Manhattan College, Music Instructor for Fieldston Summer Performing Arts Institute. Taught workshops in composition using computers, synthesizers, and MIDI technology. Began professional career as a performing guitarist of classical and popular music, then became in-house arranger for the Musicians' National Union in Cuba. Currently composer-arranger for TV Radio commercials (SGM Music), as well as guitarist performing throughout the tri-state area.

JOHN LA BARBERA – GUITAR, MANDOLIN, BANJO, LUTE
M.M. to be completed, William Paterson University; B.M., Hartt School of Music. Studied with Richard Provost, Dominick Minassi, Juan Della Mata (Madrid Conservatory), Patrick O’Brian, Albert Valdes-Blain, Alan De Mause, Gene Bertoncini, Carlos Barbosa-Lima (Brazil), and attended master classes with Jose Reg Della Torre (Cuba) and Oscar Ghiglia (Italy). Taught at The Julius Hartt School of Music (University of Hartford), The Guitar Study Center of the New School (NY), Sessione Siencese (Italy), SASI (Slovakia), and SESC (Brazil); Artist/Performer for Young Audiences NY. Currently on the faculty at Bergen County Community College. Has performed and recorded with such world-class musicians and singers as Judy Collins, Jimmy Roselli (in the film Neapolitan Heart), Susan Mc Keown, Mark Gross, Mulgrew Mille, Glen Velez, Cristina Fontanelli, Ivan Thomas and many others; recorded for the film Gloria, (with Sharon Stone), as well as on numerous jingles for TV and radio. Has performed in concert, with both classical music (as solo guitarist and with chamber ensembles) and traditional Southern Italian music with the group Pupi e Fresedde throughout Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Slovakia, and Scotland; tours Brazil regularly with his String Ecstasy Trio. Has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum, Smithsonian Institute, UCLA, the Field Museum in Chicago and the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts, the San Francisco World Music Festival, World Music Institute, Central Park Summer Stage and at the Jones Beach Theater where he opened for Sting, together with Palestinian oud and violin master Simon Shaheen and his group Quantara. Co-founder and musical director of the Italian music, theater and dance troupe, "I Giullari di Piazza," artists-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in NY. Conducts workshops and lectures on acoustic guitar styles, ethnomusicology, world music, writes for Acoustic Guitar magazine, and is the author of Traditional Southern Italian Mandolin and Fiddle Tunes.


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