Stephen Marchionda is a classical guitarist who has emerged on the international concert scene in highly acclaimed performances throughout the world. Recent solo highlights include Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, the Frick Collection

Frick Collection

The Frick Collection is an art museum located in Manhattan, New York City, United States.- History :It is housed in the former Henry Clay Frick House, which was designed by Thomas Hastings and constructed in 1913-1914. John Russell Pope altered and enlarged the building in the early 1930s to adapt...

 and the Harvard Music Association; London’s Wigmore Hall

Wigmore Hall

Wigmore Hall is a leading international recital venue that specialises in hosting performances of chamber music and is best known for classical recitals of piano, song and instrumental music. It is located at 36 Wigmore Street, London, UK and was built to provide London with a venue that was both...

 and Linbury Theatre (Royal Opera House

Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London. The large building is often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", after a previous use of the site of the opera house's original construction in 1732. It is the home of The Royal Opera, The...

), the Aspen, Cheltenham (BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a national radio station operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station is the world’s most significant commissioner of new music, and its New Generation...

 Live Performance) and Les Junies Festivals, and throughout the rest of Europe and Japan.

Marchionda's recent recording on Chandos Records Songs for Tenor and Guitar (Benjamin Britten, John Dowland and Nicholas Maw) with British tenor Philip Langridge

Philip Langridge

Philip Gordon Langridge CBE was an English tenor, considered to be among the foremost exponents of English opera and oratorio....

, was Critics Choice for Gramophone Magazine and BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 Music Magazine Editors Choice.

He has premiered many new works, including those written for him by several internationally renowned composers. Such as Nicholas Maw

Nicholas Maw

John Nicholas Maw was a British composer.-Biography:Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Maw was the son of Clarence Frederick Maw and Hilda Ellen Chambers. He attended the Wennington School, a boarding school, in Wetherby in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was 14...

's Music of Memory and Tango from Sophie’s Choice. Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s Today Too was premiered with tenor Philip Langridge and flutist Sebastian Bell, a work that was written for the trio.

Mr. Marchionda is a graduate of Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

's School of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music

Cleveland Institute of Music

The Cleveland Institute of Music is an independent music conservatory located in the University Circle district of Cleveland, Ohio, United States and is overseen by president Joel Smirnoff and Adrian Daly, dean....

 and was affiliated with the Royal Academy of Music

Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

 in London in 1991, where he received classes with the celebrated guitarist Julian Bream

Julian Bream

Julian Bream, CBE is an English classical guitarist and lutenist and is one of the most distinguished classical guitarists of the 20th century. He has also been successful in renewing popular interest in the Renaissance lute....

. He has won many international prizes including the Guitar Foundation of America's International Solo, the Segovia International, and the Manuel de Falla.

External links

Biographical Profile from Shupp Artists Management http://shuppartists.com/

Artist page from Chandos Records http://www.chandos.net/details06.asp?CNumber=CHAN%2010305