Colors: Modern Music for Guitar

My newest release, Colors includes four mesmerizing and evocative works from contemporary composers Toru Takemitsu, Michael Tippett, Lou Harrison, and Benjamin Britten. Recorded in San Francisco, California, March 2011.

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[...]a CD that invites repeated listening, and repeated listening is always the perfect vehicle for moving from surface structure to deep structure. Fiore has prepared a most inviting program through this recording, and the invitation is well worth accepting.
——Stephen Smoliar, SF Examiner

‘Colors’ is a recording filled with excellent repertoire, interesting playing, and spirited performances. I look forward to his future projects and recommend you check him out.
——Bradford Werner, classicalguitarmusic.org

Genteel

Released in March 2009, Genteel collects my main influences as an interpreter and performer. Recorded in San Francisco, California, in August 2008.

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Every piece is executed beautifully, with just enough embellishment to showcase the great melodies[...]perfect background for a quiet Sunday or at the end of a workday, with a glass of rose in hand. Recommended.
——Jamie Anderson @ IndieMusic.com

The overall feel of the record is that of a performer who is one with his instrument and plays with great command, sensitivity and a love for and of the music that is evident from start to finish.
——Perf DeCastro

Tones From an Open Heart

My debut release, Tones from an Open Heart is a collection of original fingerstyle music for steel-string and classical guitar. Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, in February-March 2005.

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There are few guitarists today that make me forget about the guitar itself, and leave me just enjoying the music. Giacomo Fiore has done that…and with apparent ease, all throughout this CD.
——Larry Pattis

I’ll be playing this CD for a long time…This is a very enjoyable effort–one I recommend for all fingerstyle enthusiasts.
——Peter Ragains @ Minor 7th

Upcoming Shows

Past Shows

You can also download a PDF archive of performances back to 2002.

Abbey Guitar Showcases

Since January 2011 I’ve been hosting a monthly acoustic guitar showcase at the Abbey Coffee Lounge in Santa Cruz—a perfect setting for acoustic music of the highest caliber!

Bio

I was born in Genova, Italy, one sunny September morning in 1983.
I first picked up the guitar when I was 8; actually, I really wanted to play the piano, but there was no way one would fit in our old home, so… I learned the basics from a family friend, then continued strumming happily on my own. When I went for my first lesson with Armando Corsi, one of Genova’s (and Italy’s) most talented acoustic guitarists, I was sure I knew all there was to know. I was wrong.
Luckily enough, Armando proved to be a very patient teacher, and I let him steer me on the right track. He introduced me to the nuanced world of unaccompanied guitar playing, exposing me to a variety of fiery folk and world styles in our weekly lessons. His encouragement and tutoring also impacted my first attempts at writing for the guitar.

Music was then my secondary focus, but some time during my first year as a pre-med college student I realized that I owed it to myself to do what I loved full time. The previous summer, I had met Muriel Anderson at a guitar workshop in Portland, Oregon. She suggested I pursue a music major at an American school, and her tip led me to Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. After the initial culture shock (biscuits and gravy, anyone?) I quickly found my sea legs and began making the most of the plethora of opportunities that the college and city offered me; this period also saw the gradual shift of my interests from the folk and fingerstyle genres, to the world of classical guitar.

After graduating from Belmont in December of 2006, I was fortunate enough to be able to continue my studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, under the brilliant and stimulating tutelage of David Tanenbaum. The two years at 50 Oak St. went by in a blur, as my horizons were stretched and my musicianship sharpened well beyond what I thought were my limits. During my second year I served as the Guitar Department Assistant, and I decided to focus more and more on music by non-guitarist composers from the postwar period; the program of my graduation recital in May 2009 featured music written since 1967 exclusively.

The next step of my musical journey began in the fall of 2009, when I joined the Ph.D. program in Cultural Musicology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I am now in the advanced stages of candidacy, researching the development of just intonation guitars in 20th-century American music.

Gear

Coming soon.

Repertoire

Twentieth Century

(*) in progress
(JI) for just intonation resophonic guitar.

Concerti

Other Repertoire