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Matthew Pidi is a classical guitarist based
in Bergen County, New Jersey. In 2012,
Matthew was featured as the guest artist in
the prominent New Jersey chamber music
group Palisades Virtuosi’s annual fundraiser
gala and has been featured in Raritan
River Music’s “Artists in the Community”
concert series. Other performances include
appearances at prominent venues such as the
Morgan Library and Museum, the DiMenna
Center for Classical Music and Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital.

Along with his solo performances, Matthew can be seen performing
with the Riverside Guitar Duo, of whom he is a founding member.
The duo was recently chosen alongside the New York City Guitar
Orchestra to premiere Marco Oppedisano’s work for guitar duo and
guitar orchestra titled Two Of a Kind and have performed concerts in
various venues in the United States and Italy.

Aside from performing, Matthew’s passion for teaching has helped
him gain a large private studio throughout northern New Jersey
teaching students of all ages and levels.

Matthew holds a Master of Music Degree from Mannes College - The
New School for Music where he studied with guitar virtuoso, Michael
Newman. He is currently on the guitar faculty at the Fort Lee School
of Music and on the performing arts faculty at Bergen Community
College.