As one half of the Small-Torres Guitar Duo, Mark Small has released six CDs of sacred and classical guitar music and received three nominations for Pearl Awards. The Small-Torres duo has performed throughout America on television and radio and has appeared with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on three occasions.

Small has composed classical, jazz, pop, and sacred music for chorus, wind ensemble, orchestra, piano, and guitar. A piece he arranged for the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet was featured on the group's 2004 album Guitar Heroes, which won a Grammy Award this in February 2005 for "best classical crossover album." Small’s solo guitar piece “Mississippi Revisited” won second place in the VIII International Composition Competition of the Corfu Festival held in Corfu, Greece, August 2005. The work will be published by Clear Note Publications in October 2005. Small has published several other titles with Mel Bay Publications and written a book for Berklee Press.

Small holds bachelor's and master's degrees in classical guitar performance from New England Conservatory and California State University, Fullerton. He has studied composition at Berklee College of Music, where he currently works as editor of Berklee Today magazine.

Peter Clemente is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and was the first prize winner in both the Guitar Foundation of America's International Solo Competition in 1986 and the Ovation Classical Guitar Competition in 1981. In addition to this, Peter won second prize in the International Guitar Competition of Puerto Rico in 1985.

Peter has performed throughout New England and has been a guest soloist with the Central Massachusetts Symphony and Thayer Symphony Orchestra. Presently, Mr. Clemente teaches guitar at Clark University and Assumption College.

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