Guitarist and composer, Giorgio Mirto graduated from the “L. Campiani” Conservatory of Mantova. For a long time he has performed extesively in Europe, Russia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Romania, Japan, China, Germany, France, Portugal, Argentina. He is the artistic director of Six Ways, a prestigious international guitarists exhibition which takes place in his native town: Turin.  He has begun a steady collaboration with guitarist Ermanno Bottiglieri with whom he formed the Moisycos Guitar Duo. This collaboration led to the first record of the complete work for two guitars by J.K.. Mertz (“J.K. Mertz, The Complete Guitar Duos”) published in Italy by the Guitart magazine and produced by the record company Gendai Guitar (Tokyo).A second CD (“Night by night”), containing the music of Scarlatti, Piazzolla, and the first world record of “Summer Suite for two guitars “composed by Davide Ficco and Carmelo Lacertosa (dedicated to Moisycos Guitar Duo), has been produced by Savarez Strings and published on the “Guitart International” magazine in the United States and Europe. A third CD for Moisycos Edizioni Musicali (Tokyo) focused on transcriptions for two guitars of Ouvertures by Gioacchino Rossini. As a soloist, Giorgio Mirto recorded “Pensée Fugitive, rapsodia per chitarra”, containing some pieces for ten-string classic guitar by J.K. Mertz, published by Edizioni Musicali Moisycos in Tokyo and another CD containing the “Twelve Studies for Guitar” written by Franco Cavallone (dedicated to Giorgio Mirto) published by Edizioni Sinfonica. A further record (“Nostalgias”), focused on revisited repertoire of traditional and contemporary music from Argentine, saw Mirto as an arranger and composer as well as a performer. A new realize is the cd in duo with Victor Villadangos “M. D. Pujol, the complete guitar duos” (Brilliant Classics), the first world recording of the whole guitar duos of the well known argentine guitarist and composer. As a composer he is not only active on the music for guitar but also on the chamber music in general. His music is performed in Europe, Argentina, USA, Russia and has raised the appreciation of musicians and musicologists of relief as Victor Villadangos, Eric Franceries, Ganesh Del Vescovo, Vivaldi Guitar Trio, Massimo Delle Cese, Attilio Piovano, Maximo Diego Pujol, Altenberg Trio, Dylan Fowler, Viktor Kozlov, Giulio Tampalini. He has been invested in the role of tutor for the music section of the Biennial of Young European and Mediterranean Artists in 2009.His music is published by Les Productions d'OZ. 
Web: http://www.giorgiomirto.com/bio (2011)