Giorgio Mirto contacted us presenting his string trio commissioned by the Turin Music Festival. It is a very interesting work that depicts a poignent moment of his life. We are looking forward to performing this "Trio 451" at the end of the month. Giorgio lives in Italy but we have been in contact with him to discuss this piece and get to know him better. It has been a pleasure to work closely with him and we hope in the future to have the opportunity of having Giorgio in Pittsburgh. We have more works by Giorgio - his Guitar Quintet and a Piano Trio. We are greatly honored by and looking forward to the string trio Giorgio is composing dedicated to us!

About Giorgio Mirto.

He graduated as classical guitarist from the Conservatory L. Campiani of Mantova in Italy. As solo and guitar duo player he has performed in Europe, Russia, Siberia, Bosnia, Japan, China and Argentina. Often writes articles for the italian magazine Guitart, articles like the ten strings guitar, romantic music and the analysis of the whole repertoire by Mertz for two guitars. He was asked to write a chapter about the ten strings guitar in the book "Short history of the guitar" published by Guitart International in the United States and Europe. He is a menber of the Moisycos Guitar Duo with Ermanno Bottiglieri and collaborates also with the guitarists Dylan Fowler, Sandor Szabo and Victor Villadangos. In duo with Victor Villadangos he has performed in Italy, Portugal, Romania and Argentina and they have recently made the first world recording of the complete guitar duos of Maximo Diego Pujol. As a composer he writes not only for guitar but also for chamber music, chamber orchestra, piano trio, strings and so on. His music is beginning to be played and recorded in Europe, USA, Russia and Argentina.