Vito Nicola Paradiso - Vito Nicola Paradiso: Frontera (Contemporary Guitar Music Inspired by Today's World) (2021)

Vito Nicola Paradiso: Born in Puglia (southern Italy) in 1964, after various experiences in different musical genres, he graduated in guitar in 1987 as a private student with highest honors.
Since the late eighties, and for over a decade, he won numerous national and international competitions. He has given numerous concerts in prestigious concert halls and city theaters in Italy, France, England, Spain, Germany, Scotland, Holland, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland and Ireland.
For several years, with a repertoire entirely dedicated to Italian music, he was active in a series of tours in China, Japan, Mexico, Argentina, Canada, and several US states: California, Oklahoma, Indiana, Oregon, Arizona, Washington, New York.
As a soloist he has performed several concertos for guitar and orchestra; in the field of chamber music he participated in several ensembles: from the duos with flute, violin, harp, singing, percussion up to quintet with strings. He collaborated with Italian and internationally renowned foreign artists.
He has recorded several solo albums, including: Una chitarra in Frack (Edizioni Curci); Serenate Latine del f '900 (annexed to GuitArt magazine); The magic of an Italian Guitar (WLO Records).
The composer is the author of the successful basic method GUITAR WHEEL. This book is a real "Best Seller" of basic music education published by Curci of Milan. For several years La chitarra volante [The Flying Guitar], among all methods for musical instruments, reached the Top Ten as the best-selling book of music education and the most used in Italy.
In addition, the same method was adopted in different European schools and conservatories, as well as, in the United States and South America where it successfully entered the market. Apart from this method, in recent years he has published several original descriptive pieces ranging from solo guitar to the guitar orchestra.
Numerous interviews and reviews in music magazines are dedicated to him. His publications have won numerous critics’ awards including: "Five stars" on Seicorde magazine and the GuitArt cover.
As a teacher, he is regularly invited all over the world to give masterclasses and seminars on his method, especially for guitar orchestras. He is a guitar teacher at the Higher Institute of Musical Studies "G. Paisiello" of Taranto. In 2000, on over one hundred and fifty candidates he came first overall, with 100/100 points, at the First National Competition.
His fecund activity as a teacher earned him many are the awards and prizes, including the prestigious Golden Guitar award for teaching in 2012 obtained at the "A. Vivaldi "of Alexandria as part of the 17th International Guitar Conference. He also won twice (in 2008 and 2012) the" Maestro of Italy "award.