About Philippe Loli

Guitar virtuoso whose interpretations of music from the Renaissance to the present are in the grand tradition. His repertoire covers both the landmark concertos in guitar history (Joaquin Rodrigo, Leo Brouwer, Heitor Villa-Lobos) and his own works. He has recorded more than 20 CDs (solo, chamber music and with orchestra), including the world premiere of the "24 caprichos de goya" by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. His activities as a composer range from the classical genre to film music. His "Concerto Azzurro" for guitar and string orchestra was performed with soloists of the Milan Scala, as was his "Four Winds Concerto" in 2004. Following the first recording of "Time Remembered" with John McLaughlin, he was involved in "The Promise", alongside such legendary artists as Paco de Lucia, Al di Meola, Sting, to name but three, and in the last recording made by the great jazz guitarist: "Thieves & Poets", an orchestral suite which "I Pommerigio Musicale di Milano", with Viktoriva Mullova, Paul Meyer and Matt Haimovitz.
Currently Philippe Loli Has a professorship at the music conservatory in Monaco, where he also studied under Pier Domenico Amerio, a student of Andrès Segovia.