MARIO BARBUTI was born at Salerno in 1976. He got a diploma in guitar at the Academy of music “Egidio Romualdo Duni” at Matera. He took part in some international Master classes and stages of specialization under the most important exponents of contemporary guitarism: Sergio and Odair Assad, Manuel Barrueco, Aniello Desiderio, Roland Dyens, David Russel.
He participated in numerous national and international competitions: in 1997 he won the first prize at the eleventh national competition “Gian Battista Pergolesi” in Naples, and in 1998 he carried off the third prize at the seventh international competition “Simone Salmaso” at Viareggio.
He has been taking a great interest in search of the connection between the guitar and the voice for years. In this circle he took care of many performances’ music conducting and direction put on by some well – known artists from Salerno and from Naples, and in 2001 he performed the poetical and musical concert “Salmi Guerrieri et Amorosi”, along with Ludovico Parenti, an actor and dramatist from Reggio Emilia.
He is an author of a few musicological and ethmusicological reviews brought out on specialized cultural magazines, including “Musica insieme”, a Bolognese magazine.
He periodically holds guitar laboratories at the secondary schools in Bologna.

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