Francesco Buzzurro

 

Guitar

Italy

Francesco Buzzurro has been playing the guitar since the age of six and combines his passion for classical music with in-depth research in the field of jazz which soon led him to develop a particular way of improvising in solo version on nylon string guitar giving the impression to the audience of listening to a complete band. Having graduated in Classical Guitar, Foreign Languages ​​and Jazz Music with 110 honors honorable mention, he joined the Sicilian Jazz Orchestra and shared the stage with international jazz music giants including Phil Woods, Arturo Sandoval, Diane Shurr, Bireli Lagréne, Toots Thielemans, Frank Vignola, Bob Mintzer, Christian McBride, Yamandù Costa and many others.

He collaborates with the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra and with some of the most well-known exponents of Italian pop such as Antonella Ruggiero, Fabio Concato, the late Lucio Dalla. He is the author of the soundtrack of "Io Ricordo", a docu-fiction on the mafia victims of the Muccino brothers for which he was awarded by President Napolitano. A frontier and unconventional guitarist, he holds joint seminars for the classical and jazz guitar departments at the University of Southern California USC in Los Angeles and has recorded numerous records under his own name in a quartet and as a soloist, including the very successful "L' Esploratore".

Awarded the title of Ambassador of Peace with Music by the Lions Delegate to the UN in 2009 in Minneapolis, he is also a Jazz Guitar teacher at the "Scarlatti" Conservatory in Palermo. He carries out an intense international concert activity and also holds masterclasses with a strong following of students at academies, music schools and Italian and foreign universities.