Nick Cutroneo

As an active performer, Nick has extensively toured throughout the United States and Italy both as a soloist and chamber musician. He has been involved with the New England Guitar Quartet, 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.

As an advocate for new music, Nick 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.

Working closely with David Madsen, Nick completed the Long Term Suzuki Pedagogy program alongside his studies as a Master’s student at Hartt – becoming the first guitarist in the country to hole a degree in Suzuki Pedagogy.

Nick maintains an active private teaching studio not only working with students in person in his teaching space in Glastonbury, CT along with students all over the world through online lessons. He regularly posts educational content on his youtube channel (youtube.com/nickcutroneo) in addition to his live and studio performance videos. He also serves on faculty at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT and Bay Path University, Longmeadow, MA.