Alberto Mesirca (1984) is a

guitarist A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselve ...

from Italy. Grandson of the Paduan writer

Giuseppe Mesirca Giuseppe is the Italian form of the given name Joseph, from Latin Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף. The feminine form of the name is Giuseppa or Giuseppina. People with the given name include: :''Note: ...

, winner of the Campiello Prize, he graduated at the Conservatory of Castelfranco Veneto (teacher: Granfranco Volpato) with the highest score and honor mention; successively he made his Konzert-Examen at the Musikakademie of Kassel (teacher: Wolfgang Lendle), ending it with honor mention. He won the “Golden Guitar” at the International Guitar Meeting of Alessandria, “Pittaluga” (member of the WFIMC) in 2007 for best recording if the year (“Ikonostas”, M.A.P.), in 2009 for “Best Upcoming Artist of the Year” and in 2013 for Best Recording of the Year (“British Guitar Music”, Paladino Music OG). He was nominated “Young Artist of the Year” at the Festival of Aalborg, Denmark, and “Rising Star” at the Festival “Gitarre Wien” in Vienna. The composers

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, Dusan Bogdanovic,

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, Mario Pagotto dedicated to him some of their compositions, and he made the premiere recordings of works by

Giulio Regondi Giulio Regondi (1822 – 6 May 1872) was a Swiss-born classical guitarist, concertina, concertinist and composer active in France and (mainly) the United Kingdom. Regondi was born of a German mother and an Italian father in Geneva, Switzerland. ...

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, Carlo Boccadoro,

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(in collaboration with Marc Ribot). He regularly performs with

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, Daniel Rowland. He was nominated responsible of the musical archive of the National Library of Istanbul. In 2010, during the ceremonies for the 500th Anniversary of death of Giorgione, he published for the first time the previously unknown Fantasias by Francesco Canova da Milano, taken from the 1565 Giovanni Pacalono Lute Manuscript. The compositions have been chosen as permanent musical installation at the Giorgione Museum.

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External links

Official website

Giorgione Museum, Castelfranco Veneto
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mesirca, Alberto 1984 births Living people Italian classical guitarists Italian male guitarists Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Italian guitarists 21st-century Italian male musicians