Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Marco Sartor has performed solo recitals in three continents to critical and public acclaim. He is a top prize winner of numerous international competitions, including First Prizes at the Schadt String Competition, Texas Guitar Competition and the JoAnn Falletta International Concerto Competition among others. He has been a soloist with orchestras throughout North and South America and collaborated in various chamber music projects. He has premiered works by many composers, including "Voyages," a concerto for guitar and string orchestra by Sergio Assad, and "Forsaken Peaks" for SATB choir and guitar by Javier Farias Caballero.
As an active pedagogue, Dr. Sartor has given numerous masterclasses in universities and conservatories in the USA and abroad, published and lectured on diverse technique and musicianship topics, contributed liner notes to guitar recordings, and adjudicated in many music competitions. He serves as Associate Teaching Professor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, where he teaches guitar, chamber music, and courses on Western and Latin American music. He has also served as faculty for the College and High-School Divisions of the New World School of the Arts in Miami, FL.
He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University, where he earned the Friedmann Prize for his doctoral thesis on Tango and its deployment in contemporary works. He also received degrees from the College of Charleston and Carnegie Mellon University. His former teachers include Robert Ravera, Mario Payssé and Eduardo Fernández in Uruguay, and Marc Regnier, James Ferla and Benjamin Verdery in the USA.
Artist's Website: marcosartor.com