Andrea Monarda, graduated in Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium, is the recipient of the prize XVI Alirio Diaz Competition in Venezuela and of the XXX Certamen Andrés Segovia in La Herraduera. He regularly performs as soloist in national and international festivals. As soloist with orchestra he collaborated with, among the others, the Orquesta de la Universidad de Granada, the Orchestra dell’Università degli Studi di Milano, the Vedsethe Orchestra Filarmonica Vittorio Calamani and the Orfeo Orchestra. His CD with the guitar works by Villa-Lobos has received five stars by the Italian magazines Musica and Amadeus: the disc has been broadcast by Radio France, Radio Vaticana and Discovery Classical (Ohio, USA).

He has been recording so far fifteen albums with the labels Brilliant Classics, Stradivarius, GuitArt Collection, Urania Records, MEP Music and LimenMusic. As scholar, since 2014 he collaborates with the specialised magazine il Fronimo writing articles about the guitar music. He is the author of the Dizionario di musica contemporanea per chitarra published in 2021 by the Magazine GuitArt. Andrea is the dedicatee of around fifty pieces, composed by today’s most renowned Italian composers.