Joe Rosochacki is a guitarist from the Detroit area, currently living in West Palm Beach, Florida. He began studying the guitar at age eight with Don Barr at the Americana Music Studio in Detroit; by thirteen, he was playing professionally. Rosochacki received a B. M. in guitar performance from the Eastern Michigan University, under the direction of Dr. Nelson Amos; he also began his compositional studies there, under the direction of Dr. Anthony lannacone. For his M.A., he has made a complete transcription for guitar of Kapsberger's Libro primo d'intavolatura (Rome, 1611). Rosochacki has performed across Europe, notable in Athens, Rome, and Warsaw, and he has visited the People s Republic of China, where he researched the music of the pi’pa, or Chinese lute.