Marco Cappelli

Marco Cappelli was born in Naples and studied classical guitar at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome, then in Basel, where he took the Konzert-Diplom with Oscar Ghiglia. Active since the mid-1990s in contemporary music, improvisation and jazz, he co-founded Ensemble Dissonanzen and leads the Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio (formed 2009), Italian Surf Academy and IDR-Italian Doc Remix. He lives in New York and teaches at Columbia University. He has worked with Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Butch Morris and Enrico Rava.