Andrea Monarda, graduated in Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium, is the recipient of the prize XVI Alirio Diaz Competition in Venezuela and of the XXX Certamen Andrés Segovia in La Herraduera. He regularly performs as soloist in national and international festivals. As soloist with orchestra he collaborated with, among the others, the Orquesta de la Universidad de Granada, the Orchestra dell’Università degli Studi di Milano, the Vedsethe Orchestra Filarmonica Vittorio Calamani and the Orfeo Orchestra. His CD with the guitar works by Villa-Lobos has received five stars by the Italian magazines Musica and Amadeus: the disc has been broadcast by Radio France, Radio Vaticana and Discovery Classical (Ohio, USA).

He has been recording so far fifteen albums with important labels as Brilliant Classics, Stradivarius, EMA Vinci, GuitArt Collection and Urania Records. Since 2014, he collaborates with the magazine il Fronimo, is the author of the Dizionario di musica contemporanea per chitarra published in 2021 by the Magazine GuitArt, of the essay The luckiest people on earth: the performing arts as personal growth and of the guitar album Dreaming dawn. Andrea is the dedicatee of around fifty pieces, composed by today’s most renowned Italian composers.