One the most original and unique voices on the worlds most played, most popular instrument, internationally recognized for imaginatively infusing an essentially traditional Jazz expression with self-invented microtonal techniques, and for the most part
due an innovative inclination, decidedly mainly operating under the radar. New York City Jazz Guitarist, Composer and Bandleader Sten Hostfalt has carried the creative legacy of legendary mentors, icons of American music, Jimmy Giuffre and Joe Maneri who
has described him as as Highly Exceptional and Virtuosic respectively, ever since the Gary Burton produced '91 CD soloist feature
and concert that including drummer Peter Erskine and bassist Matthew Garrison led to Pioneering Pianist Paul Bley initiating the
'92 recording of what a decade later, would be released as Sten Hostfalt's CD debute as a leader. Documenting an artistry that
with six CD's as independently released on his own label Sonus Rex and a decade as a NYC based bandleader hosting some of the
world's most innovative improvisers, has been called groundbreaking by Don Williamson of Jazz Review, impressive, Intense by
Time Out NY, inimitable by Paper Magazine, a Guitar Player Magazine editor's pick, and enthusistically featured in All About Jazz,
Jazz Now, Cadence, british Jazz Views, swedish Svenska Dagbladet, german BadAlchemy, italian Altrisuoni and spanish TomaJazz.

Having honed his skills during a decade alongside some of the world's most innovative musicians, as an apprentice, member and featured soloist in Jazz orchestras directed by prominent arrangers/composers George Russell, Phil Wilson, Herb Pomeroy, and on
tour in Europe with Orchestras featuring Rob McConnell, Bobby Shew and Deborah Brown as well as in 1994-95 with Guillermo Klein's ensemble that Peter Watrous of New York Times called Unlike Any Other, One Of The Better Continuing Experiments in
New York, Live at one of the recent-present era's most influential venues, Smalls Jazz Club, and as documented on the CD Big Van and El Minotauro, 1995 Beat/1997 Candid) 4-star rated and noted for it's brilliant soloists by David R. Adler of All Music Guide as
well as deemed energetic, passionate, frenzied, finely executed, always interesting by Marcela Breton of Jazz Times Magazine.

Swedish-born and initially self-taught until shaped by classical guitar studies from age 16 and an activity on the Scandinavian progressive art and improvised music scene and a longtime DIY activity including a 1982 cassette release feature as a co-leader, composer and soloist, he came to the U.S.A in 1989 on multiple scholarships from two of the world's most prestigious institutions
in modern music education, Berklee College Of Music and New England Conservatory Of Music, graduating in 1995 with honors
and awards including a Master of Music Degree in Composition, and composition masterclasses with Toru Takemitsu and Gyorgi
Ligeti. Subsequently receiving numerous artist grants and awards from the Cultural Committee of Sweden as well as from
ASCAP for his critically acclaimed '02 live recorded microtonal solo concert CD, expanding the tonal vocabulary for the traditional
six-string guitar with self-invented techniques to interpret mentor Joe Maneri's equal tempered 72 note virtual pitch continuum.

A veteran music educator with 25 years of experience, Mr. Hostfalt directs his own independent, non-corporate creative workshop NYC Guitar Studio, a facilty that has a clientele that includes some of the most active musicians of our time and prepares students
for higher studies and professional careers. He is also a member of one of New York's fastest growing workshops for Jazz studies,
NY Jazz Academy recently heard in concert at Carnegie Hall's Isaac Stern Auditorium, and has been enlisted as a NYC Board Of Education Vendor, and served at one of the city's leading colleges, as well as notably as a faculty member of The Royal College Of Music in Stockholm KMH 2001-05 and as an invited clinican and lecturer at Berklee College Of Music and New World School Of
The Arts, a division of Miami-Dade College / University Of Florida and in workshops in Slovakia, Argentina, Scandinavia and U.S.A.



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