Francesco Russo

FRANCESCO RUSSO - Born in Rome in 1960, he graduated in guitar under the guidance of Bruno Battisti D'Amario. Winner of scholarships abroad (Belgium, Hungary and Spain) he attended international guitar courses with Bruno Battisti D'Amario, David Russell, Raphaella Smits, Jorge Cardoso, Oscar Ghiglia and achieved a two-year postgraduate specialization in music teaching at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. He studied direction, composition and orchestration with Luciano Bellini and Nicola Samale and attended courses on music applied to cinema with Ennio Morricone and Luis Bacalov. Morricone himself saw and corrected 15 transcriptions that he made for one and two guitars. He has composed music included in anthologies, CDs and various theater shows with Mario Scaccia, Ugo De Vita and Dino Cafaro. He collaborates with the GuitArt magazine for which he has created in-depth studies on Calace, Amat, Brescianello. He has made numerous transcriptions published in monographs (Piazzolla, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Bach, Paganini) and anthologies of various musical genres (pop, opera, dance, symphonic, film). He created combinatorial musical games on Blues and Malagueña included in the volumes “Bailando!” and “Pop Guitar” (Fried Music). He has published several publications on Mario Gangi: Suite Latinoamericano (Ed. Sinfonica), co-author with Roberto Fabbri of the volume “Mario Gangi 40 unpublished songs for guitar” (Carisch), in collaboration with Carlo Carfagna: “Mario Gangi the guitarist without borders” and the “Baroque Suite” (Ut Orpheus). He is the founder and director of the “Mario Gangi” Guitar Orchestra with which he performs in various events. He is invited to International Guitar Competitions and Festivals as a teacher, member of the jury, curator of exhibitions, speaker and ensemble director. He teaches guitar in middle schools with a musical focus and publishes numerous videos on his YouTube channel, mostly on guitar teaching.