Angelo Gillo

Angelo Gillo
“...it is right to praise Rugolo and Gillo for their excellent interpretation, in phrasing, dynamics, colour, and skill, they leave nothing to be desired at all.

If you could ever do better (and I don’t think so), it wouldn’t help”.
SUONARE NEWS – Angelo Gilardino

“The virtuoso figure is definitely spectacular and it is difficult not to be impressed by such a display of speed, imagination, cleanliness, and elasticity of phrasing, but always with depth, elegance, and expressiveness in the speech. Chapeau!”
AMADEUS – Marco Riboni

Born in Taranto, he began his musical training with Vincenzo Zecca and continued with Frédéric Zigante achieving his guitar diploma with honours at the "G. Tartini" Conservatory of Trieste. He deepened his study by obtaining a second-level academic degree cum laude at the "A. Vivaldi" Conservatory of Alessandria.
He continued to hone his craft by working, among the others, with Alirio Diaz, Oscar Ghiglia, Lorenzo Micheli and has been involved in numerous national and international competitions of musical performance.
The keen interest in chamber music led him to perform in stable formations, in particular in a duo and a guitar quartet: with the Quartetto Santórsola he recorded a CD, in 2009, in the series "The Masters of the Guitar" for the magazine "Seicorde", remastered and re-released in 2019 for the Dutch label Brilliant Classics. For the same label he published in 2021, in duo with the guitarist Antonio Rugolo, a monographic work in 5 CDs on the complete music for two guitars by Antoine de Lhoyer, work that gained him recognition from audience and critics, obtaining the Gold Record on the prestigious magazine “Amadeus”.
His attention to historically informed performance practice led him to deepen his classical and romantic repertoire and baroque style - inspired by his work with Massimo Lonardi - using copies of period instruments: he plays a classical guitar by the luthier Roberto De Miranda, a romantic guitar by Luigi Locatto (a copy of a 1820 Panormo) and a baroque guitar (a copy of a 1679 Stradivari) by Stephen Murphy.
At the same time, he deepens his teaching skills by obtaining the second-level academic diploma in instrumental teaching at the IMP "G. Paisiello" in Taranto. He is a guitar teacher at the Liceo Classico e Musicale “G. Palmieri" in Lecce.