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Phil Farnsworth
David Tronzo
Position
Professor
Affiliated Departments
Telephone
617-747-2858
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Career Highlights
- Pioneer of extended techniques for bottleneck slide guitar
- Recordings with David Sanborn, John Cale, the Lounge Lizards, Reeves Gabrels, Jerry Granelli, Sex Mob, Mike Manieri, Wayne Horvitz, Stephen Vitiello, and others
- Performances with John Hiatt, Ray Anderson, the Lounge Lizards, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Reeves Gabrels, Sex Mob, Elliot Sharpe, Foday Suso, Hassan Hakmoun, Warren Haynes, and others
- Solo projects include the Tronzo Trio, Spanish Fly, V-16 (with Jerry Granelli), and Slow Poke (with Michael Blake)
- Recordings on New Albion, Knitting Factory Works, Accurate, Rounder, Traditione & Moderne, and Intuition Records
- Headline appearances at various jazz festivals including North Sea, Pori, Berlin, Vienna, Montreal, Warsaw, Vancouver, and JVC New York
- Featured in Guitar Player, Guitar World, Musician, Jazzthetik, New York Press, and Jazziz magazines
- International residencies as visiting artist and guest clinician
- Voted one of the Top Ten Jazz Guitarists by Musician magazine in 1994 and one of the Top 100 Guitarists of the 20th Century in its 1993 Press Poll
- Voted one of the Dirty Thirty Pioneers and Trailblazers by Guitar Player magazine in 1997; second in its 1995 poll for Best Experimental Guitarist
Awards
- CalArts Alpert Award nominee, 2000–2001
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