Marco Oppedisano is a New York City–based guitarist, composer, recording artist, educator, producer, and session musician. His work centers on innovative approaches to the electric guitar within electroacoustic music, alongside compositions for solo guitar and various ensembles.
Over nearly three decades, Oppedisano’s music has gained international recognition for its adventurous sound world. His electroacoustic works have been praised by publications such as Time Out New York, Downtown Music Gallery, Tokafi, and FAME, and his recordings have appeared on labels including Tzadik Records, Clean Feed Records, Bridge Records, New Focus Recordings, Mutable Music, EM Records (Japan), Capstone Records, and Spectropol Records.
Since his debut release in 2007, Oppedisano has produced multiple albums on OKS Recordings of North America, including a collaboration with David Lee Myers (Arcane Device). Additional releases include Resolute (Spectropol Records), Evening Sky, and Selected Works (1999–2017). His music has been featured in year‑end lists from Avant Music News, Perfect Sound Forever, and Guitar Moderne, and he has been interviewed by Guitar Moderne, Prepared Guitar, Guitar‑Muse, Tokafi, and Neu Guitars.
Oppedisano’s compositions have been performed internationally by ensembles and soloists such as the NYC Guitar Orchestra, Fireworks Ensemble, Glass Farm Ensemble, Esart Guitar Quartet, Quarto Ensamble, and guitarists Oren Fader and Kevin R. Gallagher. His work has been programmed at institutions including the Eastman School of Music, Brooklyn College, Bowling Green State University, and Bern University of the Arts. His solo electric guitar piece Urban Mosaic (2002) was examined in a graduate thesis by Italian guitarist Francesca Naibo.
His music has also appeared in film, including Jules Bishop’s feature Besides These Walls (IMDB composer credit), which premiered at the East End Film Festival (London) and later won Best Actor and Best Narrative Feature at the Queens World Film Festival. His work is featured in Don Cato’s award‑winning short Dead Man Rides Subway and other independent films screened at festivals in Montreal, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. In 2026, his composition Breathe was used in the short film T’es OUT by French-Canadian filmmaker Marie‑Louise Gariepy.
Oppedisano has appeared on the Discovery Channel and CUNY TV, and his music has been broadcast on WNYC’s New Sounds, WFMU, and BBC Radio 6, CBC Radio 2, and a variety of independent online radio stations. He has performed live on WOR710 and Vin Scelsa’s Idiot’s Delight, and has been profiled in Ralph Gibson’s guitarist photography book State of the Axe, Andrea Aguzzi’s Visionary Guitars and Sergio Sorrentino's La Chitarra Elettrica nella Musica da Concerto.
A native of Brooklyn, NY, Oppedisano holds a BA in Music Composition from Brooklyn College/CUNY and an MA in Music Composition and a Advanced Certificate in Music Education from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College/CUNY. In addition to being a longtime private guitar instructor, he is a New York State certified K–12 music teacher, and his works are published through his company, Out Your Ear (ASCAP).