Guitarist Giacomo Fiore has presented eclectic programs to audiences across the U.S. and in Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, and Italy. An ardent advocate of new music, he has given world and U.S. premieres of works by Larry Polansky, Ron Nagorcka, Agustin Castilla–Ávila, Garry Eister, Lanier Sammons, Fernanda Navarro, Edward Schocker, Matthew Grasso, and Fabrizio Carlone. He received his Doctorate in Music from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and currently lectures at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, UC Santa Cruz, the University of San Francisco and CSU Monterey Bay.