Sergio Sorrentino was born in Salerno, Italy, in the 1983. He started to play guitar at the age of ten with Francesco Langone. After, he studied classical and contemporary guitar with Angelo Gilardino and Luigi Biscaldi. He earned his classical guitar Diploma with full marks at the Avellino State Conservatory. He also studied with Leo Brouwer, Frank Gambale, Mario Dell'Ara, Maurizio Colonna. Winner of most important International Guitar Competitions (Mottola, Asti), nowadays he performs a successful concertistic career as soloist, attending important festivals and musical reviews as International Guitar Festival of Lagonegro, Perugia, Como, Master Guitar Festival of Galliate, International Contemporary Music Festival of Milan, Udine, and the Musical Review of The Novara State Conservatory. He also plays with different chamber music groups (guitar and flute; guitar, trumpet and live electronics)
He won the special prize for the best performance of Brouwer's La espiral eterna at the Guitar Competition of Lissone (Milan).
Today he is the holder of the chair of Classic Guitar at the Vercelli Institute of Music and he leads Masterclasses in different Guitar and Music Festivals.
He is a contemporary music guitarist and a lot of composers wrote music for him (Angelo Gilardino, Ralf Bauer-Morkens, Paolo Saltalippi).
He played in world première the compositions of Gilardino, Carla Rebora, Mario Dell'Ara.
Now he's publishing some records with contemporary guitar music (Rai Trade Editions) and with French composers music like Poulenc, Sauguet, Milhaud.
In his live concerts he plays compositions of de Falla, Scott, Villa-Lobos, Brouwer, Gilardino, Haug, Poulenc, Ginastera, Bogdanovic, Berio, Corghi, Reich, Cage.
He is also a musicologist and his writings are published by Bèrben Editions (The New Book of Guitar History) and Mucchi Editions.
He also plays a particular kind of italian ethnic guitar (“Beating guitar”) and he's writing a Beating Guitar's Book of Technique.
As a composer he published Kolysanka for guitar and Simple Studies for guitar (Lulu.com).
He is Doctor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Salerno and Doctor in Didactics of Music at the Novara State Conservatory.

Thanks to Sergio Sorrentino for playing in an excellent way contemporary music! (Leo Brouwer)
“A great guitar” (La Stampa, one of the most important italian newspaper)
"One of the best players of the Gilardino guitar school" (La Stampa, one of the most important italian newspaper)