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Paul Cortese, Assistant to the Director, is a musician and
technologist who has successfully combined his previous roles
as project manager, guitarist, teacher, composer, audio engineer,
graphic designer, and computer programmer into a diverse and
unique skill set.
Paul received his Bachelor of Music degree from Syracuse University
and his Master of Music degree from New England Conservatory
in classical guitar performance. His teachers included Neil
Anderson, David Leisner, and Ricardo Cobo.
Paul has performed solo and chamber music recitals throughout
Boston, appearing at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,
the Goethe-Institute, MIT, Brandeis University, and New England
Conservatory. Paul was a featured performer at the Celebration
of the Arts in Syracuse, New York and was an founding member
of the Auros Group for New Music and co-founder of Duo Bella
Luna.
As a teacher, Paul has taught at Northeastern University,
Bridgewater State College, and several distinguished community
music schools throughout the Boston area. He has lectured
at various organizations, most recently delivering a talk
at Regis College entitled, “A Classical Guitarist in
the Age of Technology.” In 1996, Paul received a grant
from the Cambridge Arts Council, in association with the NEA,
to present a series of lecture/performances on the history
of the guitar to students in the Cambridge City Schools.
Paul’s extensive work with music technology and new
media includes designing and building websites for Takamine
Guitars and Vater Percussion, developing multimedia presentations
that synchronize digital video, audio, and Flash animations
into a single format using the SMIL programming language,
creating MIDI sequences and online guitar tutorials, and composing
soundtracks for interactive applications. His website, SonicSite.com,
features loop-based audio content for designers to purchase
and utilize in their own multimedia and online projects.
In addition, Paul is also a photographer whose work captures
musicians practicing, rehearsing and performing. His images
have appeared in Jazz Times, Jazziz, the Boston Globe, and
the Boston Herald.
This past summer, Paul relocated to the Fort Worth area from
Boston and now lives with his wife Heidi and their son Milo
in Grapevine, Texas.
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