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Joe LoPiccolo

  • Joe LoPiccolo

    Bachelor of Arts
    Master of Fine Arts
    CalArts

    Email Profesor LoPiccolo at jlopiccolo@mtsac.edu 

  • Joe LoPiccolo is a guitarist and composer whose work is influenced by Classical, Jazz and World Music styles. Writer Dan O'Heron of the Pasadena Weekly states his music is "Soft spoken eloquence, fascinatingly improvised." and "The music is comforting and visual, it takes you to a better place, a paradise found." 

    Joe LoPiccolo is a graduate of The California Institute of the Arts, receiving his BFA in Jazz Guitar and his MFA in Guitar Performance. He is also a graduate of the Berklee College of Music Youth Summer Program and has taken masterclasses with guitarists Guinga, Paco Serrano and Mick Goodrick.

    He is music faculty at Mt. San Antonio College and College of the Canyons where he teaches World Music, Rock Music History, Music Fundamentals, History of Jazz, Music History, and group and individual guitar instruction in jazz, classical and world music genres. Joe is also a visiting artist for the guitar department at Cal State Northridge. He has authored two texts, Guitar Mosaic and Improvisation for Guitarists and was a contributor to Andrew York's Jazz Guitar For Classical Cats series by Alfred. Joe was a columnist for Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine, writing a column entitled "The Global Guitarist". 
     
    He is a multiple ASCAP Plus Award recipient and won the Guitar Player Magazine "Reader's Challenge" in February of 2006. Joe is a La Bella strings artist and has recorded three CDs of original compositions, "Journey", "Passages" and "Night".

    Courses taught: Instrumental Music (Jazz), Instrumental Music (Guitar), General Education Courses in Music