The Italian-Swiss guitarist Giuseppe Feola was born in Rome in 1980. He studied guitar with Massimo Delle Cese at the Arts Academy in Rome and at the Alfredo Casella Conservatory in L'Aquila, where he graduated with Menzione d'Onore. A Swiss federal scholarship enabled him to continue his studies with Stephan Schmidt at the Basel Academy of Music, where he graduated with honours in 2008. Giuseppe Feola has won prizes in international competitions such as the Fernando Sor Competition in Rome and the Tokyo Guitar Competition in Japan. In 2005, the Italian Minister for Art, Education, University and Research presented him with the Italian Art Prize Premio delle Arti.
Giuseppe Feola has performed at numerous theatres and festivals. These include the Teatro Argentina in Rome, the Baratelli Concert Society in Aquila, the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, the Concert Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Chicago Guitar Festival and the Baldwin Wallace Guitar Festival in the USA, the Tirana Guitar Festival, the Polish Guitar Academy Festival and the Santa Cecilia GuitarFest of the Rome Conservatory of Music.
In 2010, Feola recorded the Suite Española op. 47 and the Cantos de España op. 232 by Isaac Albeniz. The work was released on the Dutch label Brilliant Classics.
Giuseppe Feola teaches at the Basel Music School and since 2008 as assistant to Prof Stephan Schmidt at the Basel Academy of Music.
He is a passionate and meticulous pedagogue whose aim is to develop the specific potential of each student. His pedagogical approach is based on the search for a constant optimisation of the representational systems underlying music-making, which goes hand in hand with the development of technical-instrumental and stylistic skills.