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Nino D’Amico

Nino D’Amico was born in Naples in 1997. He began studying classical guitar at the age of 12 with his father, and then with Marco Caiazza preparing for entry to the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella in Naples, where he studied with Vincenzo Amabile. Nino has taken part in masterclasses given by Leo Brouwer, Giulio Tampalini, Frédéric Zigante, Aniello Desiderio, Andrea De Vitis , Gabriel Bianco, Peter Graneis, David Pavlovits, and Csaki Andras, among others.

Since 2014, he has been giving concerts and also winning prizes in national and international guitar competitions. In May 2019, Nino was awarded a EuroStrings Scholarship to participate in the International Guitar Festival Harmonia Cordis in Romania, where he won First Prize in the International Guitar Competition. In the same month, he won the Special Prize at the International Paganini Guitar Festival competition in Parma for the Best Interpretation of a piece by Paganini (in a category with no age limit).