One of the world’s leading and most charismatic guitarists, Tali Roth has been hailed by Classical Guitar magazine as "an extraordinary solo and chamber musician” and by The New York Times as a “marvelous classical guitarist”. Her past engagements include performing on the soundtrack for Woody Allen’s 2010 film, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. Since her Carnegie Hall debut, Ms. Roth has performed as a soloist throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Japan and her native country of Israel, appearing in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall with violinist Midori, Alvin Ailey theatre with Douglas Dunn and Dancers in the 92nd St Y Harkness Dance festival, Rose Hall home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Caramoor Center with conductor Giovanni Reggioli, Tel Aviv Henry Crown Hall, Sanremo town Hall at the Internattional Sanremo Guitar Festival, Teatro Presidente in San Salvador with the El Salvador Philharmonic with conductor Sarmientos, Teatro Solis in Uruguay with Polly Ferman and Glamour Tango, Haiyuza Theatre Rappongi , Tokyo with Flamenco Komatsubara and Silvia Duran dance companies, the Susan Dellal center with members of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and at Lincoln Center with members of the New York Philharmonic. Ms. Roth has performed on stage in the New York Off-Broadway musical production of Nobel Prize Laureate Derek Walcott's The Odyssey and by invitation for the U.N. in Washington for dignitaries such as former Prime Minister Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and General Colin Powell. She has won Top Prize in all categories at the Twenty-Third Masterplayers Music and Conductors Competition in Switzerland and the New York Artist International Competition Award. An avid new music promoter Ms. Roth has recorded Premiere works by composers such as Ami Maayani to the IMP label, Richardo Lorca, conductor and composer German Caceres, composer Mladen Milicevic and more. She has recorded extensively to TV and Radio worldwide and has featured on WQXR, Argentinian 96.7 national radio, Chicago public Dame Myra Myra Hess Series, Canada Public TV and Los Angeles Hollywood TV to name a few. Ms. Roth is a graduate of the Jerusalem Rubin Academy (B.M) and The Juilliard School (M.M.) She has led the New York University (NYU), Guitar Department from 2008-2011, has presented master classes throughout the world and has been a fellowship teacher and performer at the Aspen Music Festival. Her upcoming DVD with Grammy Flutist Carol Wincenc will be released by Cinevu. Tali Roth has been the head of the guitar program at Juilliard Pre-College since 2005 and the Narnia Festival in Italy since 2012. She played recitals was head judge of the Int Guitar Festival of Sanremo Italy and BRNO Checz Republic since 2014. She is the Founder and Director of GuitarOasisInternational foundation and Italy based festival , non for profit (3)(c) internationally established to promote talent. She has recently appointed Chair of Alumni and North America Friends for The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Ms. Roth plays a double top Contreras , Max Cuker and John Price guitars and is a Luthier Strings Artist. Ms. Roth has recently received two teaching awards from Carnegie Hall.

Critically acclaimed as talented and cultured guitar performer, exponent of the Alvaro Company guitar school, Luciano Tortorelli holds concerts and masterclasses together with many famous personages of the guitar world for internationally acclaimed guitar festivals and prestigious musical institutions. Tortorelli graduated in guitar with full marks from the Italian National Conservatoire (M.Villa) and was later awarded a Diploma of Merit from the Accademia Musicale in Pescara. He continued his academic career with Alvaro Company in Florence, undertaking a clear course of research with respect to technique and expression. After earning a Diploma of Merit from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, he graduated from Salerno University with full marks in Literature and Philosophy, completing his composition studies with the Argentinian composer Eduardo Ogando. Tortorelli keeps a busy concert schedule as soloist and with his brother, the violinist Mauro Tortorelli, encompassing many important musical institutions in a variety of countries, including Carnegie Hall - New York, St Martin-in-the-Fields - London, the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire - Moscow, the Dublin Philharmonic, the French Guitar Society - Metz, the Ravello Concert Society at Villa Rufolo, the International Lyceum Club Concert Series - Florence, the Czech Guitar Society. Alongside contributing to music and guitar magazines of international acclaim, he is a dedicated studio musician and he has edited the first modern edition of Francesco Molino’s 3 Sonatas Op.2 for guitar with violin accompaniment, published by Chanterelle - Schott. His debut album was released by the South Korean label Aulos Music. His CD “Latin Latitudes”, for solo guitar, produced and internationally distributed by Brilliant Classics (2016) and his new CD for Tactus Records, that includes the world premiere recordings of Francesco Molino’s Sonatas for guitar with accompaniment of violin, were both highly rated by internationally acclaimed magazines such as Classical Guitar, Guitart, Musica, Seicorde (CD of the Month), Il Fronimo etc. These recordings were also presented by Radio Nacional Argentina “De Segovia a Yupanqui“, RAI Radio 3 “Primo Movimento”, Radio Vaticana “Incontri Musicali”. The Molino album received the “Best CD Prize” at the Fiuggi Guitar Festival. Furthermore, he has been invited to hold masterclasses, concerts and lecture-recitals in countries around the world, including USA (The Juilliard School of New York; the Portland Guitar Society), UK (International Guitar Research Center of the Surrey University of Arts), Argentina (Conservatorio Superior de Musica A.Piazzolla in Buenos Aires), Italy (Narnia Music Festival, Fiuggi Guitar Festival, Salento Guitar Festival, Music Academies, Guitar Symposia), Russia (Music Academy of the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow), Finland (Music Institute of Helsinki), Poland (Krakow Academy of Music, Guitar Festivals), Czech Republic (Brno International Guitar Festival); Slovak Republic (Kosice Philarmonia, Bratislava Music Festival); Belarus (Guitar Renaissance Festival, 2013), in addition to many other international music institutions. On February 28th 2017 he made his debut at New York City's Carnegie Hall. The acclaimed guitarist–composer Alvaro Company dedicated “Bagatella” op.51 and "Preludio" (pensando a Čajkovskij) op.17 to Luciano Tortorelli, who received recently another dedication “Suite Hispana” arr. for guitar and strings by Josè Bragato, the cellist-arranger of Astor Piazzolla. He’s ordinary professor of guitar at the “G. Martucci” National Conservatory in Salerno.

The Greek guitarist Antigoni Goni is a British council, Royal Academy and Juilliard School scholar. Notably, she studied with Julian Bream, Sharon Isbin, Oscar Ghiglia, John Mills, and Evangelos Assimakopoulos. As the founder of Classical Guitar magazine Maurice J. Summerfield hasput it, Antigoni Goni is today an internationally acclaimed soloist and recording artist, sought after pedagogue and festival organizer, whose artistry and expertise is in great demand internationally. Her long list of competition and awards includes the prestigious Julian Bream prize (assigned by Julian Bream himself and received from Lady Diana), and the 1st prize and NAXOS prize of the 1995 Guitar Foundation of America Competition (GFA). The latter launched her international career as concert and recording artist. Antigoni Goni is the founder of the Guitar Department at the Juilliard Pre-College Division at the Juilliard School in New York City (USA) that she chaired and taught for 10 years. She also was adjunct professor at Columbia University (New York City, USA), honorary Associate Professor (ARAM) at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and member of the Board of Advisors of the Guitar Foundation of America. Since 2005 Antigoni Goni is the head of the Guitar Department at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels (KCB). In this capacity she organized a large number of successful international events. In 2015 she was nominated “professor of the year” and was presented with the “Madame de la Hault” prize. Between 2013 and 2018 she was member of the Artistic Committee (Artistieke Raad) of the conservatory. In 2007 Antigoni Goni founded the Volterra Project, Summer Guitar Institute, a successful international workshop that Classical Guitar Magazine has defined “Groundbreaking” and has become an internationally undisputed point of reference in the field of the classical guitar. Since the 65-concert tour following the 1st prize at the Guitar Foundation of America Competition in 1995, Antigoni Goni has played in practically every guitar society and guitar series all over North America and Canada as well as many prominent guitar Festivals in Europe and Russia, South America and the Far East. Some of her career’s highlights include her 1993 New York debut at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, her 1995 appearance at the "Bolshoi” Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (thus becoming the first guitarist since Andres Segovia to perform in that hall), her 2002 London Debut at Wigmore Hall and her 2005 appearance at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the magnificent amphitheater under the Acropolis of Athens: a unique and outstanding honor for a native Greek. The long list of her performances includes yearly tours in USA (in over 15 States) and Canada, and tours in Japan, Malaysia, and several concerts in a variety of locations in Russia where she returned many times performing solo or with orchestras from Novosibirsk to Kazan and from Moscow to St Petersburg. Music festivals, Guitar societies, Summer Workshops, Subscription series all over the world have become her artistic office. Finally, her many European tours  brought her in a very wide array of locations, including, most recently to play a concert on the beautiful stage of King’s Pace in London in celebration of the 100 years of John W. Duarte.

Martha Masters first achieved international recognition in 2000 when she won first prize in the Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition. That same year she also won the Andres Segovia International Competition in Linares, Spain, and was named a finalist in the Alexandre Tansman International Competition of Musical Personalities in Lodz, Poland. Since then, Ms. Masters has been active as a solo recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist around the world. Recent seasons included appearances at festivals and on concert series through the United States, Europe, Russia, China and Australia.  Masters received both the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Manuel Barrueco, and completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Southern California as a student of Scott Tennant. ​ Ms. Masters is on faculty at Arizona State University, and is President of the Guitar Foundation of America. She has released seven recordings (Naxos, GSP and independent releases), and has published three books with Mel Bay Publications and Alfred Music.

Critically acclaimed virtuoso violinist of great musical instinct, skill and insight, Mauro Tortorelli began his violin studies under Luigi Giordano, achieving a first class diploma in the course held by Carlo Giuntoli at the Conservatoire in Salerno. While still very young, he attended the Franco Gulli’s violin master classes at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and a seminar on J.S. Bach’s works for the violin held by the legendary violinist Henryk Szeryng. In 1987 he was awarded a further diploma at the Accademia Chigiana under Boris Belkin. Next came further courses at the Mozarteum in Salzburg under J.J. Kantorow and in Rome under G. Monch, with whom he made his debut in 1990 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan with a piece for two violins by the composer Luigi Nono. That same year he also embarked on studies of composition and orchestral conducting with E. Ogando, the best pupil of Goffredo Petrassi. Tortorelli has played as guest soloist with numerous orchestras and at many important events: Slovak State Philharmonic, European Youth Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Nuova Scarlatti, Soloisti Aquilani, Dublin Philharmonic, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro Gonfalone and Teatro Ghione in Rome, RAI Auditorium in Naples, Festival Alghero, Festival Pontino, Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, Ravello Festival, Salzburger Schlosskonzerte, Associazione Barattelli, Kennedy Center in Washington (USA), Moscow Conservatoire Hall, Schönberg Center in Vienna, Auditorium Sinopoli at the Parco della Musica in Rome, etc. He also plays in chamber ensembles, including a duo with guitarist Luciano Tortorelli and with pianist Angela Meluso (Gran Duo Italiano), as well as with other musicians such as F. Maggio Ormezowski, Rohan De Saram, Alexandra Gutu, Franco Petracchi, Alfonso Ghedin, Massimo Macri and Daishin Kashimoto. He has recorded works for violin and piano by Franz Liszt (Camerata Tokyo), Sigmund Thalberg (Nuova Era), Camillo Sivori, Gaetano Fusella (Tactus Label), Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco, Rosario Scalero, Darius Milhaud, Camille Saint-Saens, Otakar Sevcik, Leopold Auer, Francesco Santoliquido, Alfredo D’Ambrosio (Brilliant Classics) and for violin and guitar works by Francesco Molino (Tactus Label) Niccolò Paganini, Astor Piazzolla, Manuel De Falla, Isaac Albeniz (Aulos Corea). His performances have also been broadcast by RAI Radio3 Suite, Primo movimento RAI Radio3, Radio Malta, Radio France. He has received numerous 5-star reviews in the specialized press, including publications such as Musica, Amadeus, Fanfare, Harmonia Mundi, Gramophone, Diapason. He has taught violin in various Italian conservatoires, academies and summer schools, as well as holding master classes at the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow, Aichi University in Japan, Dubai Conservatoire, and in music schools in Amman, Porec, Kazan, Yogyakarta and Dobrovo. He currently teaches violin at the “Stanislao Giacomantonio” Conservatoire in Cosenza.

Film I TV I Concert Music. A member of the Executives Committees of both the Motion Pictures and TV Academies, Four - time Emmy Award Nominated, Board member of ASCAP, GRAMMY winner (for her music on the GRAMMY winning album WOMEN WARRIORS: THE VOICES OF CHANGE), VP of the Alliance for Women Film Composers, Winner of the Society of Composers and Lyricists Award for “Outstanding work in the Art of Film Music”, the Visionary Award in Music by The Women’s International Film & Television Showcase, and winner of the Telly Award, composer Sharon Farber is a celebrated Film, TV and concert music composer.  A graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Film scoring and Concert composition (dual major), Sharon has been working with networks and cable broadcasters like NBC, CBS, Showtime, Lifetime and the WB as well as writing music for feature films and documentaries. Her film music has been released commercially and performed live in concerts. Sharon is one of 9 female composers featured at Lincoln Center, at the historical “Women Warriors” concert, curated by Maestra Amy Anderson that is currently under GRAMMY consideration. Sharon is also one of the few composers featured in the concert event celebrating female composers sponsored by the "Alliance for Women Film Composers” (The AWFC). The International Film Music Critics Association wrote about her piece: "Composer Sharon Farber wowed the crowd with a suite of music from three of her scores: "Children of the Fall", “When Nietzsche Wept" and "The Dove Flyer"... Sharon’s latest score if for award winning director Nina Menkes, entitled “Brainwashed- Sex-Camera- Power”, which premiered Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival. She is also signed to score director Gev Miron’s feature doc “Solar Wars” as well as a slate of films from Aegis film Group. Sharon’s Corona project, arranged and produced by her for the United Nations’ Corona relief fund, “I’m Standing With You”, in collaboration with 12 time OSCAR nominee Iconic song-writer Diane Warren and award winning Director Gev Miron, features 17 lead singers from virtually every continent and 160 singers and instrumentalists. It is the largest scale project of its kind. https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=keWJmCzSMW0 In the concert music world, Sharon has many national and international credits and commissions to her name, including The Los Angeles Master Chorale, Juilliard School of Music, Pacific Serenade Ensemble, The Northwest Sinfonietta, Juilliard School of Music and many more, in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center (NY), Disney Hall, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (LA), and internationally.