Bio

Brazilian guitarist and scholar Dr. Felipe Garibaldi is an accomplished performer and educator whose work spans premiere performances, recordings, scholarship, original compositions, and collaborative projects. Recent highlights include the world premiere recording of works for guitar by Claudio Santoro, an article for the Soundboard Magazine, a lecture at the Guitar Foundation of America Convention, broadcast premieres on São Paulo’s Cultura FM, and the premiere of his own compositions setting the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe for voice, pipe organ, and electric guitar, featured by the Poe Society of Baltimore.

Garibaldi’s career moves between the concert stage, interdisciplinary spaces, and the recording and teaching studios. He received the Prêmio Nascente from the University of São Paulo for his performances of J.S. Bach and has worked as a session musician and arranger on Sony Music projects.

He has studied with some of the most influential figures in the history of classical guitar, including Leo Brouwer, Sérgio Assad, David Russell, Manuel Barrueco, and Eliot Fisk. Dr. Garibaldi earned his Doctor of Musical Arts from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with Julian Gray, following his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of São Paulo under Edelton Gloeden. His early training included studies with Henrique Pinto, Gilson Antunes, and Aida Saggioro.

With over two decades of teaching experience, Dr. Garibaldi has mentored students into leading music programs and professional careers. His student-centered approach emphasizes technical excellence, creative exploration, individual expression, and scholarly inquiry. He has taught at the Peabody Conservatory and directed guitar programs at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Frostburg State University. Beginning in Fall 2026, he will join the University of New Mexico as Professor of Guitar.