CAM: Marco Sartor - Biography

Marco Sartor
Marco Sartor is a top prize winner in numerous international competitions including First Prizes in the Schadt String Competition, Texas Guitar Competition, and recently the JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition. He has performed extensively throughout the United States, including appearances at Piccolo Spoleto Festival, with the Allentown Symphony Orchestra and recent performances of Joaquín Rodrigo's Aranjuez Concerto in Pittsburgh and Washington, PA.

Marco has also performed and was featured in radio and television broadcasts throughout Spain, Germany, Mexico, Argentina and Uruguay to both critical and public acclaim. In addition to his solo career he is involved in duo projects with guitarist Marc Regnier and countertenor José Lemos.

Marco Sartor received degrees from the College of Charleston and Carnegie Mellon University. He studied with Robert Ravera, Mario Paysee and Eduardo Fernández in Uruguay and Marc Regnier and James Ferla in the USA. As an increasingly sought-after teacher, he has been invited to give master-classes in Uruguay, Argentina, and a number of universities and conservatories in the USA. He has started the guitar programs at the Carnegie Mellon Music Preparatory School in Pittsburgh, PA and at the Charleston Academy of Music in Charleston, SC, where he currently teaches.