Claudio Pietronik

I was born on April the 12th 1989 in Rimini. My first experience with a guitar was when I was 13, when I started playing everything by ear on my acoustic guitar. A year and a half later I recieved my first electric guitar, and in that moment my studies begun. My first live performance happend a month later, when I played “ We will rock you” with the band that actually was making the concert. My background is mostly made of Rock, Progressive and Metal sounds, my favorite musicians and band are Europe, Van Halen, Dream Theater, Vinnie Moore, Rhapsody, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Kiss, Extreme, Angra… but always keeping an eye on all the other kinds of music. At the age of 16 and 17 I took part in the “Festival Delle Arti”, a famous contest organized by Andrea Mingardi for band and soloist, performing pieces by Vai, Satriani, Petrucci, Moore… I also recorded rythm guitars and solos for an eurodance song for a discografic label from Brescia (Akyr Music). Important artists, such as Kiko Loureiro e Jennifer Batten collaborated with this label previously. At the beginning of 2008 I entered the “Extreme Guitar Collective”, created by the well knowned guitarist Michele “Dr. Viossy” Vioni, a network of guitarists that cooperate for the production of didactic methods, videos (www.myspace.com/extremeguitarcollective). Up to now I’m a modern guitar teacher a the S. Cecilia music school of Rimini and I play in the power-symphonic metal band “Ancient Bards”...Claudio Pietronik plays Meltdown (Vinnie Moore)Claudio Pietronik plays State of Grace (Liquid Tension Experiment)Claudio Pietronik plays Satch Boogie (Joe Satriani)