BoBio

I started playing recorder at age six and clarinet at seven. Piano at ten. My major influences, as a kid, were "classical" music (Bach, Stravinsky, etal) and jazz. My father was a very fine pianist.

I found the guitar at age thirteen. My older brother was a tremendous 12 string player. He gave me my first lessons in fingerstyle guitar. Got my first electric when I was sixteen.

At age eighteen I got seriously into the classical guitar. I've studied privately in New York City and as a student at the University of Arizona School of Music. Spent about two years studying jazz guitar/theory with Paul Ricci.

I'm now a teacher of special education in New York City. I really like what I do, work hard at it, and still have plenty of time to play music and enjoy life.

I've performed throughout much of the United States as well as parts of the Caribbean and Europe. Studio work and performance soundtracks, too. One gig which I really enjoyed was co-writing and recording the score for a modern dance piece with choreographer/composer Tere O'Connor. The piece was called "You Baby Goes to TenderTown". Tere's brilliant and the dancers were beautiful. It's an incredible experience, watching a dance ensemble create art in movement to your music.

Things changed when my daughter was born. I pretty much stayed at home; raising her with my beautiful wife and lots of good friends in the neighborhood. It's been a wonderful experience. I shelved the electric guitar during that period, dedicating myself almost exclusively to my roots: solo acoustic guitar. Wrote lots of tunes. Some of them are recorded and on my new CD. You can check it out by clicking the CD picture on the "Welcome" page.

I'm playing out again and digging it. If you'd like to find out when and where, please get in touch with me through my email or MySpace address, found in the "Contact Me/Mailing List" page of this site.

Just what I was looking for:

guitars, sheet music,

and a panini.

Music Row...

...,in New York City, is one city block with some really nice shops. "Music Row", in Paris, is a very long stretch of a wide boulevard, with shops on the side streets, as well. It's really BIG. Pretty amazing.

That's an awesome guitar shop in the background. Lots of sheet music and fine acoustic guitars. I found some Debussy transcriptions for guitar that I'd been looking for forever.