"A Superb Musician" (The Wire Magazine)

Sergio Sorrentino is acclaimed as "the best concert music electric guitarist" (Il Manifesto - newspaper) and “one of the most important contemporary guitarists” (RAI Radio Tre).

Sergio is an award-winning guitarist and composer and he is widely known for his distinctive use of the archtop guitar in Modern Classical music and his unique guitar sound (on BBC Radio, Ólafur Arnalds said that he really loves the different space created by Sorrentino's guitar)

Recently, his compositions and his electric guitar arrangements of famous pieces by Glass, Einaudi, Vanzo, Alcocer, Arnalds, Richter (among others) have surpassed millions of views on Instagram and millions of streams on digital platforms, making him one of the leading guitarists in the Modern Classical and Emotional Music genre.

Since 2021 Sergio collaborates with the legendary composer Philip Glass. Glass published Sergio Sorrentino's video performance of "Orphée's Bedroom" and “Opening” on his official channels. His label Orange Mountain Music released both tracks as Singles on all digital platforms, earning a lot of success. Sergio has released 3 Singles with the pianist and composer Andrea Vanzo, one of the foremost modern classical musicians of today.

Previously, Sergio dedicated his compositional and interpretative research to contemporary classical music for classical and electric guitar, as well as to experimental and electronic music. His CD Dream - American Music for Electric Guitar (Mode Records), which includes works by Feldman, Cage, Wolff, Curran and others, was reviewed and highlighted in the New York Times by Seth Colter Walls as one of the "Week’s Best Classical Music Moments”, defining the album “of disarming beauty”. Sergio plays with the great Gavin Bryars ("Sergio Sorrentino has performed many of my works for guitar, and also my ensemble pieces that include the guitar and I have thegreatest admiration for his work in this respect") as a member of the Gavin Bryars Ensemble. He released a duo album with Gavin (Gavin Bryars: Electric Guitar Works”), in which he plays some world premiere recordings together with the great English composer. With the legendary American guitarist Loren Connors, Sorrentino released “Shadow”, album based on improvisations for two electric guitars. As a classical guitarist he promotes contemporary classical repertoire and he performed as soloist several Guitar Concertos (among others the “Concierto de Aranjuez” with the Gorzow Filharmonia in Poland). He has worked with the greatest composers and performers of our time like Philip Glass, Christian Wolf, Alvin Curran, Gavin Bryars, John King, Elliott Sharp, John Russell, Eric Mingus, Machinefabriek, David Lang, Steven Mackey, Usui Yasuhiro, Scott Fields, Loren Connors, Tim Brady, Paul Lansky and many others. As a soloist, Sergio Sorrentino started his international concert career very early and has held solo concerts and master classes in many important festivals and venues (like Yale University, New York University, Manhattan School of Music, Sprague Hall in New Haven, Spectrum in New York, Festival de Música Contemporánea de La Habana in Casa de Las Américas, Cuba, Italian Cultural Institute of Paris, Sala Biala of the Wilanow Museum (Warsaw, Poland), International Guitar Research Conference/University of Surrey (UK), Vortex in London, Performance Room of Luxembourg, Filharmonia Gorzowska Concert Hall, ON Cologne Neue Musik Festival, In Situ Art Society in Bonn, Experimentik Festival in Berlin, Nuova Consonanza Festival in Rome, Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano, AngelicA Festival of Bologna, etc.). He has recorded for Mode, Orange Mountain Music, Radio Rai, Creative Sources (Lisbon), Suoni Possibili, Yellow Rose Records, RMN Records (UK), Silta Records, Flag Day, Fratto9 and published scores for Casa Ricordi/Universal, Dunvagen Music, Sinfonica. Important magazines and newspapers (GuitArt, La Stampa, Il Manifesto, Prepared Guitar and others) have dedicated monographic articles and specials with interviews to him, and he has been the protagonist of several episodes of the Italian Rai radio and tv broadcasts such as Piazza Verdi (three live studio concerts) and Battiti and of radio programs abroad such as Radio France, BBC Radio, Rté of the Irish national radio. His piece "De Citharae Natura" was awarded at the 1st International Guitar Composition Competition "Goffredo Petrassi" of the "Santa Cecilia" Conservatory in Rome. He also wrote film score - he wrote the soundtrack and he participated as an actor/ musician in the film Nuovo Contatto, premiered at the Torino Film Festival 2021) - incidental music for theatrical performances (including La Voce di Giocasta for the Teatro Parenti in Milan) and sound art installations (among others at the MACRO museum in Rome). Van Stiefel wrote for him “Bound” - Electric Guitar Concerto for electric guitar and orchestra. Sergio’s recording of David Lang’s “Questionnaire” has been highlighted in the Bandcamp New and Notable section and it has been included by the historian Ted Gioia in his Top 100 Recordings of 2021.He wrote the first book ever written about the concert repertoire for electric guitar (“La Chitarra Elettrica nella Musica da Concerto”, Arcana Edizioni) and several other books and articles about guitar history. He graduated with honors in Guitar at the Conservatory of Novara. He also graduated in Music Education and in Foreign Languages and Literatures. He teaches classical and electric contemporary repertoire at the State Conservatories and during his worldwide master classes.