Exponent of the Alvaro Company guitar school, LUCIANO TORTORELLI is considered by critics to be a very cultured and talented guitarist. He has held concerts and masterclasses all over the world together with many famous personages of the guitar world for prestigious musical institutions, including Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School - New York, St Martin-in-the-Fields - London, Tchaikovsky Conservatoire - Moscow, Dublin Philharmonic, French Guitar Society, Portland Guitar Society, Ravello Concert Society, International Lyceum Club – Florence, Conservatorio Superior A.Piazzolla - Buenos Aires, Narnia Music Festival, Music Institute of Helsinki, Krakow Academy of Music, Brno Guitar Festival, Krzyżowa Guitar Festival, Salento Guitar Festival, Kosice Philarmonia, Bratislava Music Festival, in addition to many other internationally acclaimed institutions. He has edited the first modern edition of Francesco Molino’s Sonatas Op.2 for guitar with violin accomp., published by Chanterelle–Schott and the J.W.Duarte’s “Variations on a Theme of Nikita Koshkin” published by Doberman. He recorded for Aulos Music, Brilliant Classics, Tactus and his CDs are highly rated by magazines such as Classical Guitar, Guitart, Musica, Il Fronimo, Sześć Strun Świata, etc. He plays an “Elite” of Josè Ramirez III (limited production of 1988) and a balsa double top guitar made by Lubos Naprstek (New Jersey - USA). Besides being a Savarez Artist and Artistic Advisor at the Guitar Oasis Foundation of New York - USA, he's ordinary professor of guitar at the "G. Martucci" Conservatory in Salerno (AFAM-Ministry of University and Research).