One of the most innovative improvising guitarists to emerge on the creative New York music scene during the past decade. Internationally acclaimed guitarist, composer and bandleader Sten Hostfalt apprenticed in traditional jazz orchestras led by Phil Wilson, Herb Pomeroy and George Russell. He appeared as a leader, composer and featured soloist on recordings initiated by Paul Bley and Gary Burton and studied composition and improvisation with Jimmy Giuffre and Joe Maneri, before being introduced to the international jazz scene in the mid '90s, alongside many of the new jazz generation's most prolific players, as an original member of Guillermo Klein's pioneering large ensemble. Since 1999, a recipient of numerous grants and awards for original projects and recordings, Sten Hostfalt has been recognized by leading press as one of few guitarists worldwide to create and perform, with self-invented techniques for the standard 6-string, new original music beyond the equal tempered 12-tone system. Current work focuses on modern traditional jazz and original compositions based on standard jazz songs and forms. Since 2006, operating his own Manhattan based educational facility, NYC Guitar Studio. Mr. Hostfalt is a veteran educator and former faculty member of one of the world's oldest music conservatories, The Royal College of Music in Stockholm. And an invited clinician at leading institutions in Argentina, Sweden and the U.S., including New England Conservatory, Berklee College Of Music and New World School of The Arts Miami, FL. www.StenHostfalt.com.
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