Alex de Grassi

Alex de Grassi has been a unique voice in the acoustic guitar world for the past 42 years; his innovative approach to composing and arranging for solo acoustic guitar has influenced a younger generation of musicians and helped lay the foundation for contemporary fingerstyle guitar. The Wall Street Journal has called his playing "flawless" and Billboard hails his "intricate finger-playing technique with an uncanny gift for melodic invention."

His 1978 recording, Turning: Turning Back (cited by Acoustic Guitar magazine among its top ten essential fingerstyle recordings), subsequent recordings Slow Circle (1979) and Southern Exposure (1984), and his GRAMMY®-nominated recording The Water Garden (1998) are considered classics of the genre.

His latest solo studio recording, The Bridge (released April 2020), features six new original compositions plus arrangements by Gershwin, Hendrix, and classic folk songs.