Marco Oppedisano


Marco Oppedisano is an American guitarist and composer whose compositions focus on the innovative use of electric guitar in the genre of electroacoustic music. His musique concrète/acousmatic music compositions have utilized multitrack recording and extended performance techniques for electric guitar, nylon string guitar and electric bass. In addition to musique concrète, compositions by Oppedisano also consist of "live" electric guitar in combination with a fixed playback of various electronic, acoustic and sampled sounds.
Oppedisano has also composed works for solo classical guitar, solo electric guitar and mixed ensemble.
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Biography

Oppedisano began playing guitar at the age of 12 and was primarily a rock guitarist before entering studies at the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College. After two years of classical guitar study at Brooklyn College, he completed composition studies there with Tania León, Charles Dodge, Noah Creshevsky and George Brunner.
Oppedisano completed graduate studies at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College obtaining his master's degree in Music Composition. There he studied with Henry Weinberg and Thea Musgrave. Oppedisano is also a certified New York State P-12 Music teacher.
From 1999-2003, as a member of the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College Electroacoustic Ensemble, Oppedisano worked at the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music (BC-CCM) to composeelectroacoustic music focusing on sounds derived only from electric guitar and electric bass. From 2003–present, Oppedisano has exclusively worked out of his home recording studio in Queens, NY. He is a certified NYS music teacher and was also employed as an adjunct professor at the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College.
Since 2002, he has also had ensemble works performed by the,,, Fireworks Ensemble,, Brooklyn College Percussion Ensemble, Zyryab Guitar Quartet and solo guitar compositions performed by Kevin R. Gallagher and . As a guitarist he has performed in compositions by notable composers/guitarists, Nick Didkovsky and Glenn Branca.
Oppedisano's electroacoustic music with guitars has been used in film and was included in UK feature film, directed by . won Best Actor and Best Narrative Feature at the . Oppedisano's music was also use in the short film, by . Dead Man Rides Subway was premiered in March 2012 at and was the Grand Prize Winner at the in New York City in 2018.
Oppedisano presently lives in Forest Hills, Queens with his wife Kimberly Fiedelman and daughter, Jillian Maisie Oppedisano.

Discography

Selected contributions

  • Spectra: New Music for Guitar Orchestra, "Two of a Kind," Various Artists
  • Walk My Way, "Klang," Various Artists, Vol. 2 of 5
  • COVID - ?, "Covid - 81," Various Artists
  • Sounds Exposed, Minds Without Frontiers, "Yawp," Various Artists Quarto Ensamble: Música para Cuarteto de Guitarras Eléctricas, "Good News," Various Artists ]
  • I NEVER METAGUITAR FOUR, ''"Watch Your Step," Various Artists Hyperrealist Music, 2011-2015, Noah Creshevsky
  • Dreamshatterer 3,
  • The Four Seasons, Noah Creshevsky
  • $100 Guitar Project, "Red Cent," Various Artists
  • Axe, "Fractured Sky," Various Artists
  • The Unraveling Begins, "From Here To Obliquity" with Infinite Ego Various Artists:
  • Post-Minimalism: 4 Countries/19 Composers, "Steel Sky," Various Artists
  • First Flight, "Primo Volo,"
  • Vox Novus 2003 60x60, "The End is Near," Various Artists
  • Hyperrealism, "Hoodlum Priest ,"'' Noah Creshevsky

Dedications

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Publications

  • La chitarra elettrica nella musica da concerto: La storia, gli autori, i capolavori by
  • Visionary Guitars: Chatting With Guitarists by
  • State of The Axe: Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words by Ralph Gibson

Film music

Selected interviews and reviews

  • "Marco Oppedisano, Reviews of Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar and The Ominous Corner by Darren Bergstein, .
  • "Marco Oppedisano, Resolute,"
  • "Interview with Marco Oppedisano,"
  • "300 Essential Names in Modern Guitar through 300 Interviews,"
  • "Interview with Marco Oppedisano,"
  • Reviews of music by Marco Oppedisano by
  • "Interview with Marco Oppedisano,"
  • Review of Mechanical Uprising by Massimo Ricci, '
  • Reviews of Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar, The Ominous Corner, Mechanical Uprising and Tesla at Coney Island by Mark S. Tucker, ,
  • Reviews by François Couture, '
  • Review of Mechanical Uprising by Tobias Fischer, ''''