Faculty bios

  • Antigoni Goni

    Antigoni Goni Antigoni Goni performs and records exclusively on Galli Genius Strings

    As a performing artist who has lived and worked in both the U.S. and in Europe, the Volterra Project’s Founder and Artistic Director, Antigoni Goni, has a long and in-depht experience with both the cultural differences between these societies, and with the universal climate of competition that exists in traditional guitar training programs. She enjoys a truly international career, performing extensively in Europe, Russian, North and South America and the Far East, both as a recitalist and soloist. more

  • Margarita Escarpa

    Margarita Escarpa Margarita Escarpa trained at the “Real Conservatorio Superior de Madrid”. She studied with Valentín Bielsa, Demetrio Ballesteros, Gerardo Arriaga, Miguel Ángel Girollet and David Russell, and was subjected to the influence of some of the best modern performers.

    She completed her academic education graduating with the Extraordinary Prize, and a short time later received her Bachelor degree in Mathematics from the “Universidad Autónoma de Madrid”. more

  • Jon Aaron

    Jon AaronJon Aaron has been active in the music industry for over 25 years as a manager, agent and producer of concerts, festivals and recordings. He trained as a pianist at the University of Michigan and came to meditation while a student there.

    Jon began seriously studying mindfulness meditation in 1998 and over the course of the last 10 years his meditation practice became central to his life. more

  • Alvaro Company

    Alvaro Company Alvaro Company (Florence, Italy, 1931) studied composition at the “Cherubini” conservatory of Florence under P. Cicionesi, L. Dallapiccola, P. Fragapane, V. Frazzi and C. Prosperi, obtaining diplomas in Choral Music and Composition (1955/56)

    He studied guitar under Andrés Segovia at the Accademia Chigiana of Siena from 1950 to 1954; he established the classical guitar course at the Florence Conservatory in 1960, where he continued to teach until the end of 1997; he established the same course at the “O. Vecchi” Musical Lyceum of Modena in 1965; in 1961 at the invitation of the director he taught the same course at the “C. Monteverdi” Conservatory of Bolzano and in 1967, again at the invitation of the director, he taught at the “S. Cecilia” Conservatory of Rome.more

  • Melinda Toth

    Melinda TothHungarian guitarist, Melinda Toth was born in Pecs and started her musical education at the age of five under the instruction of her father. After finishing the secondary school of Arts she moved to Budapest to study with Jozsef Eotvos at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music from where she received her Bachelor and Teacher's degree in 2005.

    In 2004 she was awarded a 6 months Erasmus scholarship to study with Antigoni Goni's class at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels. After graduation in Budapest she returned to Brussels and joined the Masters program of the Royal Conservatory where she graduated with great distinction in 2008. more

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