Patrick Appello

Mr. Appello has taught classical and flamenco guitar at Monmouth Conservatory since 1990. He served on the music faculty of Georgian Court University for ten years, and has studied guitar with Manuel Barrueco, Frederic Hand, Juan de la Mata, and Ana Maria Rosado, plus lute and theorbo with Pat O’Brien. Mr. Apello earned a B.M. in Guitar Performance from the Manhattan School of Music and a Masters in Performance from New Jersey City University.

Amongst his accomplishments, he was co-winner of the Oscar Ghilia Guitar Competition and solo artist in the Master Class at the Aspen Music Festival, and served as the original solo classical guitarist for the famed "Cellar in the Sky" restaurant on the 107th floor of the World Trade Tower. His CD Reflections, a collection of Renaissance and early-Romantic music performed on historic instruments, was released in 2007. A second CD, The Last Rose of Summer was released in 2012, hailed as “delightful by its array of guitar techniques, idiomatically conceived for the instrument” by Early Music America.

Currently, Mr. Appello performs for corporate and private clients in the NY/NJ area as well as occasionally performing in Faculty Recitals with the Monnmouth Conservatory of Music. Please visit his webpage for more details and the latest schedule. patrickappello.com