Oppedisano completed graduate studies at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College obtaining his master's degree in Music Composition. There he studied with Henry Weinberg and Thea Musgrave. Oppedisano is also a certified New York State P-12 Music teacher.
Since 2002, he has also had ensemble works performed by the New York City Guitar Orchestra, Quarto Ensamble (Chile), Esart Quartet, Fireworks Ensemble, Glass Farm Ensemble, Brooklyn College Percussion Ensemble (directed by Morris Lang), Zyryab Guitar Quartet and solo guitar compositions performed by Kevin R. Gallagher and Oren Fader. As a guitarist he has performed in compositions by notable composers/guitarists, Nick Didkovsky and Glenn Branca.
Oppedisano's electroacoustic music with guitars has been used in film and was included in UK feature film "Besides These Walls" (2017), directed by Jules Bishop. "Besides These Walls" won Best Actor and Best Narrative Feature at the 2018 Queens World Film Festival.[1] Oppedisano's music was also use in the short film, Dead Man Rides Subway by Don Cato. Dead Man Rides Subway was premiered in March 2012 at The Queens World Film Festival and was the Grand Prize Winner at the Roxy Underground Film Festival in New York City in 2018.[2]
Oppedisano presently lives in Forest Hills, Queens with his wife Kimberly Fiedelman and daughter, Jillian Maisie Oppedisano (born in July 2010).
Discographyedit
Evening Sky (EP) - (2022: Out Your Ear)
Selected Works (1999 - 2017): Acoustic, electric and electroacoustic music with guitar (2021: Out Your Ear)'
Resolute (EP) - Spectropol Records - (2015: SpecT - 37)
"snapshots (for Noah Creshevsky)" (2003: Revised and remastered in 2020)
Publicationsedit
La chitarra elettrica nella musica da concerto: La storia, gli autori, i capolavori (Italian Edition) (October 2019 - Arcana - ISBN 978-8862316996) by Sergio Sorrentino
Visionary Guitars: Chatting With Guitarists (Andrea Aguzzi, March 2016 - ISBN 978-1326586935) by Andrea Aguzzi
State of The Axe: Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words (Museum Fine Arts Houston, October 2008 - ISBN 978-0300142112) by Ralph Gibson
Film Musicedit
"Dead Man Rides Subway" (2011). Film short directed by Don Cato
"Besides These Walls" (2017). Feature Film directed by Jules Bishop
Selected Interviews and Reviewsedit
"Marco Oppedisano, Reviews of Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar and The Ominous Corner by Darren Bergstein,Downtown Music Gallery NYC newsletter, May 7, 2021.
"Marco Oppedisano, Resolute," Prepared Guitar, December 3, 2015
"Interview with Marco Oppedisano," Tokafi, October 22, 2014
"300 Essential Names in Modern Guitar through 300 Interviews," Prepared Guitar Blog, April 26, 2014
"Interview with Marco Oppedisano," Guitar Moderne, August 25, 2013
"A Generic Guitar Inspires a Distinctive Project," New York Times, April 2, 2013 (in photo - far left, rear)
Reviews of music by Marco Oppedisano by The Stash Dauber (2012-2022)
"Interview with Marco Oppedisano," Guitar-Muse, October 12, 2012
Review of Mechanical Uprising by Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes, April 11, 2011
Reviews of Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar, The Ominous Corner, Mechanical Uprising and Tesla at Coney Island by Mark S. Tucker, FAME, December 2010, FAME, March 2011
Reviews by François Couture, Monsieur Délire, December 20, 2010
Review of Mechanical Uprising by Tobias Fischer, Tokafi, September 15, 2010
Referencesedit
^"BESIDES THESE WALLS by Jules Bishop - Feature Narrative Film @ Queens World Film Festival".
^"Review Fix Roxy Underground Short Film Festival Coverage: Don Cato Talks 'Dead Man Rides Subway'". August 2018.