Sergio Ercole

Born in Florence, Italy Sergio began playing guitar after moving to Australia in 1980. He has Masters in guitar from Melbourne University and was taught by Jochen Schubert, Marion Schaap, and John Griffiths. He has also studied in Italy with Oscar Ghiglia, Alirio Diaz, Flavio Cucchi, and John Williams.

As a classical guitarist he has won numerous awards including a Melbourne Research Scholarship and Italian Government Grant to study in Sienna, He has undertaken solo tours around Australia and released a number of CDs which are available through various independent record stores.

Sergio has been involved in the Melbourne music scene since the early 90s performing guitar, writing and arranging in a wide variety of musical ensembles and genres. These include the Latin/Funk Reg Cole Quartet, his Latin Italian duo Momento, his Pop acoustic project The Surge, and more recently, the Big Italian Night Band with Frank Lotito.

You might also have recently seen or heard Sergio performing with The Cat Empire on Rove Live, Sunrise, ABC Sideshow, 774, Nova FM, with the Australian Youth Orchestra or in front of a capacity crowd at the Myer Music bowl.