Born and raised in Veneto, Italy, Michele Fiorindo is a professional guitarist who has a thriving career working as a soloist, band leader, and sideman and certified music educator. He's played with groups ranging in styles from jazz, '80s alternative, reggae, ska, rock, classical, and Latin; he has followed the teaching of the great jazz pianist Barry Harris for more than 20 years.
After studying classical guitar with Christopher Kenniff at Kean University, Michele received a degree with honors in music education and classical guitar in 2007. That study of classical music influenced Michele's style and technique, both on nylon string guitar and traditional jazz hollow body guitar.
While working as a music educator in public school systems for 17 years, From 2007 to 2010, he taught guitar at Arts High School in Newark, NJ, where he was the Director of the Guitar Ensemble and the Latin-jazz band, having directed his ensemble on multiple performances in on and off campus.
Michele currently works as a freelance guitarist throughout the New York metropolitan area, directs strings and guitar ensembles in Union County NJ, and is also a member of the New Jersey Guitar Orchestra, an ensemble that collaborates with world-class guitarists and performs in the tri state area in various festival-colleges (Kean-WPU-NJCU-Carnegie Hall).
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