Giorgio Tortora, musician and orchestra conductor, was  very young when he started learning classical guitar with his teacher, Mr. Bruno Tonazzi. He earned his classical guitar diploma with full marks at the music conservatory in Trieste. His intense concert activity made him perform at several national and international musical competitions, of which later he has been invited to as italian jury member (“M. Giuliani” in Bari). Nowdays he performs a successful concertistic career both as soloist and as part of different chamber music groups (i.e.: flatus and guitar, guitar duo, guitar trio, violin and guitar, string quartet and guitar, string quintet and guitar, soloist and orchestra, various ensamble), attending important festivals and musical reviews as “Festival dei Due Mondi” in Spoleto, “Settembre Musica” in Torino, “Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti” in Rome, “Musica in Museo” in Reggio Calabria, “Teatro Massimo” in Palermo, “Teatro Rosetum” in Milano. Furthermore he performed in several European Countries as Hungary, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland. In 1992 he established the “Concordia Guitar Orchestra” as per Mr. Leo Brower’s, famous  Cuban composer, suggestion. The “Concordia Guitar Orchestra” is a particular gruop made of sixteen professional guitar players. Giorgio Tortora has performed with this ensemble in Italy and abroad, as orchestra conductor. In 1995 he established the “Jazzy  & Classic”, a musical quintet which he takes part to as musician. He recorded for different television broadcasting stations (Rai, Ortf, Bayerische Television, Radio France) and he also was part of discographic productions. One of them being the soundtrack of “In the Mood for Love” (music by Michel Galasso), a film that ran for Oscar Awards and was the winner of Cannes 2000. He has also been devoting himself to musicological research for several years and he has been taking care of different publications for classical guitar: “La Battaglia di Marengo” for flute and guitar, the “Variazioni op.38” of Mauro Giuliani for guitar and orchestra, the “Sonata 1984” of Guido Viozzi, published by Chanterelle Verlag, and various teaching works. He performed as soloist guitar player together with main orchestras and conductors as Mr. Francesco Mander and Mr. Leo Brower. Furthermore, as guitar player,  he is often performing with different orchestras as “Mitteleuropa Salon Orchester”, “Orchestra del Teatro Verdi”of Trieste, “Orchestra Filarmonica” of Udine.
In 2002 he was asked to direct “Maria di Buenos Aires” of Horacio Ferrer, with music by Astor Piazzolla, during an Italian tour that started from the “Verdi” Theatre in Terni. Giorgio Tortora was the founder and artistic director of the “Stagione Sinfonica di Gorizia” for three consecutive years, of the MasterClasses “Gorizia Armonica”, of the  “Musica a 4 Stelle” concert season performed in Grado for twelve editions. He was also consultant for the musical review called “Note in Rifugio”. Today he is the holder of the chair of Classic Guitar at Gorizia Musical Institute, he was manager of for four years.
Web: http://www.giorgiotortora.com/ (2008)