I have a long time experience with teaching, have been a State Conservatory teacher for 6 years now, and worked already before (and still do) in masterclasses for International Guitar or Chamber Music festivals around the world.
Teaching is a great passion and part of my life as a musician, complementary to the performing aspect of this profession. I have been a student of many important teachers (in Italy with Gianfranco Volpato, Angelo Gilardino, Frédéric Zigante; in Germany with Wolfgang Lendle) and during the competition period I have been studying with Manuel Barrueco, Alvaro Pierri, Alirio Diaz, Jason Vieaux.
A particular aspect which I followed has been the performance connected to knowing the original sources of the compositions; and also working a lot not only as a soloist, but also a chamber music performer with some of the best string players in Europe; and I think both aspects could give something interesting to the students.

Here is my bio:
Alberto Mesirca
Classical Guitar

The American Record Guide praised his Scarlatti as “The best Scarlatti I’ve heard on solo guitar”, and Classical Guitar Magazine wrote: “Superb recording from the prodigiously talented Mesirca”.

The Italian guitarist Alberto Mesirca was born in 1984. He completed his Bachelor and Master of Arts at the Conservatory of Castelfranco Veneto, in the class of the eminent teacher Gianfranco Volpato, before going on to study with Wolfgang Lendle at the Music Academy of Kassel in Germany.
Alberto has a busy performing schedule, working with musicians
such as Dimitri Ashkenazy, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Daniel Rowland, Marcelo Nisinman, Janne Thomsen, Priya Mitchell and Hugo Ticciati. He has also collaborated with the Enesco,
Ardeo, and Acies string quartets, Quartetto d’Archi di Venezia, and Ex
Novo Ensemble.
Recent seasons have been characterised by intensive periods of concert performances, lectures and master classes around the world.
These have taken him to the Guitar Foundation of America Convention,
Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival (where he performed the national premiere of a composition of György Kurtág, working closely with the composer), Stradivari Foundation, Oxford Chamber Music Festival, Silesian Guitar Autumn in Poland, Festival Classique in The Hague,
Lessines “Sons intensifs” Festival, “Semana Tárrega” in Valencia, and
the Beethoven Festival in Melbourne. Other highlights include the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Regio in Parma, Auditori Nacional in Valencia, Kunsthalle Wien and the Italian Institutes of Culture in Paris, Oslo, Helsinki, Stockholm,
Barcelona, and San Francisco.

Working with Marc Ribot, Alberto recorded the complete guitar works of the Haitian composer Frantz Casséus. He was also responsible for the digitalisation and creation of the Musical Archive of the Beyazit Library in Istanbul,
Turkey, in 2011. In collaboration with Hopkinson Smith and Franco Pavan, Alberto published the previously little known compositions by Francesco Da Milano from the Castelfranco Veneto 1565 Lute Manuscript, now distributed
by Orphée Editions. This re-discovery led Dušan Bogdanović to write a composition for Alberto on a theme of Da Milano called “Tre Ricercari sulla Compagna”. In 2013 Mesirca gave the world première of a composition written for him by the Cuban composer, guitarist and music director, Leo Brouwer.
Alberto has an extensive discography. In 2007 he won the International Guitar Convention in Alessandria’s “Golden
Guitar” for “Best Recording” for his disc Ikonostas, winning the same award again in 2013 for his “British Guitar
Music” recording with cellist Martin Rummel. The prestigious organisation also judged Mesirca to be “Best Upcoming Artist” in 2009. Recent collaborative projects include a recording with O/Modernt dedicated to the Chaconne.

His concert schedule in 2018 took him all over Europe, with appearances at the Kuhmo Festival (Finland), Stift Festival (Holland), Sonoro Festival (Romania), Osterkonzerte Dusseldorf (Germany), Ex Novo Festival in Venice
(Italy) and Ikebana Festival in Oviedo (Spain). Some of the most recent highlights in his engagement diary also
include a performance at M.A.C. Milan as part of LaVerdi’s chamber music season, and concertos with the Kasseler
Symphonie Orchester, Orchestra d’Archi “Giacomo Facco, musico veneto”, and Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto,
conducted by Marco Angius.
Alberto Mesirca currently lives in Castelfranco Veneto and teaches at the State Conservatory of Music of Bari.
www.albertomesirca.com