Classical and electric guitarist focused on the contemporary repertoire.
Since 2010 Giuseppe Mennuti studied at the "Gesualdo da Venosa" Conservatory in Potenza with Michele Greci and Gianvito Pulzone, and at the Conservatorio Superior "M. Castillo" in Seville with Francisco Bernier, graduating in 2019. He completed Masters in Music Performance and Music Pedagogy at the Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB) with Elena Casoli, and attended the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt (2016–2021) under Yaron Deutsch. He held the Swiss Government Excellence scholarship and a research-led performance grant from the Fondazione Cini, and won second prize at the 37th "Premio Valentino Bucchi" international competition for contemporary music.
He focuses his artistic activity on the contemporary repertoire, collaborating with Collegium Novum Zürich, Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain, Basel Sinfonietta, Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, Israel Contemporary Players and the UFA Sextet — performing across Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Switzerland, Portugal, Denmark, Luxembourg, Austria and Israel.
He has appeared as a soloist with the Sinfónica Conjunta de Sevilla and the Berner Symphonieorchester, and recorded for Liquen Records, Contrastes Records and Bastille Musique. He has given lectures and masterclasses for the Instituto Superior de Bellas Artes in Asunción (Paraguay), the music universities of Madrid, Barcelona and Albacete (Spain) and the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp (Belgium).
Committed to promoting new music, he wrote for Guitart magazine until 2023 and, since 2024, runs the blog "Obiettivo Contemporaneo" with Pierpaolo Dinapoli. He sits on the IGNM Bern committee and is artistic director of the Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain (NEC). In 2023 he released his first recording project, "OCHRA" (Contrastes Records), dedicated to the guitar music of José María Sánchez-Verdú.
"Con obras de Sor y de Ponce, Giuseppe Mennuti manifestó una gran madurez musical y una importante carga de expresividad afectiva, especialmente con Sor. Con sonido limpio y brillante, lució también agilidad y sentido del ritmo en la obra de Ponce."
Andrés Mengíbar, Diario de Sevilla
