Paolo Sereno

“Italy’s grooviest guitar player!” – Don Ross
Paolo comes from Italy- His talent was discovered by Marcel Dadi in 1996 and since then he shared the stages with a lot of great musicians: Don Ross, Antoine Dufour, Michael Manring, Jacqueline Perkins and William Ackerman Stefano Fariselli Leo Gadaleta and Andrea Costa
In 2017 he created the ParmaReggioGuitar Fest with guests like J Perkins, Calum Graham, Ryoei Shimoyama and Huang Chia Wei and ValBonetti. Then toured Colombia playing in Bogotà and Cartagena de Indias for the fourth edition of the international guitar festival. In 2015 he organized concerts for the Parma Guitar Club with Don Ross Thomas Leeb etc During the 2014 he played in Hong Kong, Bejing, Xian, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur in a long Asian guitar tour with Masa Sumide organized by the Naga Guitar Company. Two times was invited to play for the International Fingerstyle Guitar Nights in Shanghai(2011 and 2012) He played also on the main stage of the most important Italian guitar Festival like Soave (2011) San Severino Blues (2007/2011), Paese a Sei Corde (2011/2012) and AGIM Sarzana (2003 winning the festival contest and in 2004 2006 07 08) a lot of shows in Europe, between Holland, Austria (with Thomas Leeb), Italy and the Balkans. Very often he is also in trio with Violin (Andrea Costa or Leo Gadaleta) and Sax (Stefano Fariselli) playing his own compositions and swing rock standards.
He is art director of music festivals in Italy and collaborates actively to guitar magazines and blogs.
In 2006 he created the Movie Concert: a solo concert for guitar and beamer entirely dedicated to the famous movies soundtrack and he is author of a Method on Superpicking and Fingercussion guitar (2004) and came out with three CDs: “Con la Chitarra” 2002, “The Movie Concert” 2009 and “Vulcano!”2012 produced by Max Tonti and printed by Windstrings publications. Booking agency chitarrautorato@gmail.com site www.paolosereno.com
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