NEAL FITZPATRICK

Neal Fitzpatrick is a Connecticut native. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford and his master's degree from the Yale School of Music. His awards include The Applied Music Department Guitar Award for Excellence at the Hartt School and The Benjamin Jepson Award at the Yale School of Music. In his final year of study at the Yale School of Music Guitar Department, he was Professor Benjamin Verdery's teaching assistant. His teachers include Guy Smith, Sal Salvador, Alan Spriestersbach, Sharon Isbin, and Benjamin Verdery. He is an active soloist and chamber musician and has performed in diverse venues and events such as the Yale Center for British Art, Sprague Hall, Woolsey Hall with the New Haven Symphony, the Aspen Music Festival, Bates Recital Hall at U.T. Austin, the 92nd Street Y in New York City, and the Yale Guitar Extravaganza. He has been active in the public library music scene for over 20 years in the northeast and beyond. He is the founder and director of An Evening of Guitar at The Blackstone series at the Blackstone Library in Branford, Connecticut, and the former host of Classical Guitar Connecticut on iCRV radio. Neal has premiered several works and is an advocate for new music for the guitar through his own compositions and the performance of many new works for solo guitar and guitar-based chamber music. His recordings include: A Classical Guitar Concert, and 19th Century Waltzes, Preludes, and Studies for Guitar. These CD recordings, plus the albums Twenty Etudes for Guitar by Neal Fitzpatrick, Ferdinando Carulli Opus 27, Studies and Exercises, Classical Guitar Favorites, The Guitar Tradition, and Soixante Lecons Pour Two Guitars, Op. 168- Anton Diabelli can be found on the streaming platforms Spotify, Pandora, iTunes, Amazon, Deezer, and more. Neal teaching studio offers lessons in guitar, fretted, and strings.