Jim Tosone

Jim Tosone is a contributing editor and staff reviewer for Guitar Review magazine, where his articles and reviews have appeared regularly since 1991. He has also written for Soundboard magazine and authored the classical guitar entries for the three-volume Music in the Twentieth Century. His transcription for guitar of J.S. Bach’s Suite No. 1 for Solo Cello was premiered at the 1991 Toronto Guitarfest. Tosone has played classical guitar for over 15 years. He studied privately with Dr. Nicholas Goluses, who at the time was chairman of the Guitar Department at the Manhattan School of Music. He has also performed in master classes for internationally renowned guitarists Hubert Käppel, Raphaëlla Smits and David Tanenbaum.