Edoardo Catemario, was born in Naples, Italy. He received his early musical education at the age of 5. At first, he studied guitar with Salvatore Canino, Antimo Pedata and later on with Jose Tomas and Maria Luisa Anido. He also studied analisys with Titina De Fazio and the South American composers Leo Brouwer and Oscar Roberto Casares.

Young Catemario has won first prizes in several national and international competitions. In January 1991, he was the first prize winner of the prestigious "Andres Segovia" guitar competition in Almunecar (Granada) and in 1992 of the famous Alessandria International Guitar Competition.

Edoardo Catemario has performed in concerts, broadcasts and major festivals in most of the European countries such as: Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Czech Republic, Poland, United States, South America, and United Kingdom in prestigious concert halls like the Grosser Saal of the Wiener Musikverein (Vienna), Auditorio Nacional (Madrid), St John's Smith Square and Royal Academy of Music (London), Associazione Scarlatti (Napoli), Amici della musica di Palermo, Perugia e Padova, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall (New York) Cite de la musique (Parigi) Teatro Coliseo (Buenos Aires) MusikHalle (Hamburg) TVE2 (Spain), RTF3 (France), RAI1 and RAI3 (Italy) among others.

Having a fruitful collaboration with some composers, he premiered several compositions dedicated to him. Among them: "El Kalasha de Avalokitesvara" by Eduardo Morales Caso, "I racconti di Mamma Orca" by Roberto De Simone for guitar and string quartet and "Concerto Serenata" by Oliviero Lacagnina for guitar and string orchestra.

Edoardo Catemario is acclaimed as an extremely versatile guitarist, who passes with ease from the romantic repertoire (played on original instruments) to the baroque, to the XXth century music, to contemporary music. His repertoire includes a vast amount of solo works, besides the almost all the chamber repertoire and 23 Concertos for guitar and orchestra. He is frequently invited as guest soloist by orchestras such as: Wiener Akademie, Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra della Toscana, Orchestra di Stato del Messico, Orchestra filarmonica Italiana, Solisti di Fiesole, under the direction of famous conductors such as: Martin Haselboek, Marzio Conti, Anton Garcia Abril, Enrique Batiz, Nicola Paszkowski, Roberto De Simone, Oliviero Lacagnina, Ottavio Dantone among others. Apart from his work as a soloist, Catemario is in demand as a chamber musician and has collaborated with many of the worlds leading musicians including: Kurt Wiedmer, Alain Meunier, Massimo Quarta, Roberto Fabbriciani, Mario Ancillotti, Sylvie Gazeau, Antonello Farulli, Gabriele Cassone, Vittorio and Duccio Ceccanti, Nicoletta Curiel, Vincent Aguettant.

Up until now, Catemario has several recordings made with such music labels as: ARTS Music, Koch Schwann and EMI which have been awarded with critics prizes: Joker by Crescendo (Belgium), Choice of the month Cd Classica (Italy), 5 Stars Musica. In January 2004 his recording of the Concerto n1 by Giuliani was attached to the BBC Music Magazine, in January 2006 he has the cover of Guitart magazine.

Edoardo Catemario has held master classes in France, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom and Austria. He is also invited to the Salzburg's Mozarteum to give a course during the "Sommer Akademie". Between 1993 and 2001 has been titular of the course of interpretation at the "Conservatoire International de Paris" (Paris, France). Since 2006, he teaches at the Accademia Musicale di Firenze.