Artist · Guitar
Marco Cappelli
Biography
Marco Cappelli is an Italian guitarist, composer and bandleader whose work spans contemporary concert music and free improvisation. Born in Naples, he studied classical guitar at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome and continued his training with Oscar Ghiglia in Basel.
A co-founder of Ensemble Dissonanzen, he leads the Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio, Italian Surf Academy and IDR – Italian Doc Remix. His collaborations include Marc Ribot, Enrico Rava, Elliott Sharp, Giovanni Sollima and Adam Rudolph. His discography includes the solo project Extreme Guitar Project: Music from Downtown New York and the Acoustic Trio’s literary trilogy: Les Nuages en France, Le Stagioni del Commissario Ricciardi and Norwegian Landscapes.
