The Friday Noon Concert Series

Felipe Garibaldi, solo guitar

Friday, March 14, 2025

To Be Announced

About the Artist:

Brazilian guitarist Felipe Garibaldi is an active performer, academic, and educator, having toured extensively through Brazil and the United States, presenting audiences with a varied and creative repertory, as well as mentoring students in their artistic pathways.

Felipe Garibaldi fosters innovation in the guitar repertory through premier performances and recordings, scholarly work, collaborations with composers, and through his own compositions. Some of his recent projects include the world premiere recording of Claudio Santoro’s works for guitar, as well as its premiere performance in the USA; an article featured on the Soundboard Magazine of the Guitar Foundation of America; a lecture at the annual GFA convention; and a number of radio broadcast premiere recordings of Brazilian guitar music for the São Paulo State Radio Station Cultura FM, in Brazil.

Felipe Garibaldi’s eclectic interests and skills have led him to thrive on the concert stage and in the recording studio, being awarded with the Premio Nascente by the University of São Paulo, performing the music of J. S. Bach, as well as working as a session musician and arranger on many recording projects for Sony Music.

Having worked with several of the world's greatest classical guitar masters—such as Leo Brouwer, Sérgio Assad, David Russell, Fábio Zanon, Julian Gray, Manuel Barrueco, and Eliot Fisk—Felipe Garibaldi is passionate about sharing and teaching the art of guitar playing and has been mentoring guitar students for over twenty years.

Felipe is currently a lecturer of classical guitar and affiliate artist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he also directs the UMBC Guitar Collective. He also teaches at Frostburg State University, and has previously taught Guitar Music Skills at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where he is also a doctoral candidate studying with Julian Gray.