Dr. Thomas Millioto D.M.A. Brooklyn Based Classical Guitar Player & Teacher.

"I began studying classical guitar on a weekly basis with Tom Millioto in 1999. Throughout our musical relationship, I’ve found Tom to be highly innovative, enthusiastic and encouraging. He is an excellent educator with a true devotion to teaching. Currently, I am in my junior year at Hunter College majoring in guitar performance. I was fortunate enough to be able to continue my studies with Tom as my teacher at Hunter. The lessons I take privately blend so well with my classroom studies. Just yesterday we went through a Bach gigue and analyzed the chord structures. It was fascinating to see how much I have learned in so short a time. I feel very fortunate to have found Tom as a teacher. He is a first class educator and any student who studies with him will receive skillful mentoring, professionalism and care."
Amy Holderness

" I have been taking lessons with Tom for 2-1/2 years. In that time I have improved remarkably. I play a Gibson Les Paul electric guitar and an acoustic guitar. Tom is totally receptive to whatever I have ever wanted to learn — from Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix to rearranging a Madonna song for the electric guitar. His lessons in chord theory have been invaluable in improving my songwriting and improvisational skills. I have been playing guitar for 5 years and I regret not having started taking lessons with Tom sooner. Tom is always very professional, a gentleman, and makes a good cup of espresso."
Martina Bacarella

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Dr. Thomas Millioto is a graduate of SUNY Stony Brook where he studied classical guitar performance as well as performance on the lute and the 19th century classical guitar. He has over twenty years of teaching experience and has been teaching professionally and continuously for the past twelve years. He is also a Performance Associate for CUNY Hunter and an instructor at the Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music. His students have gained acceptance into college level music programs at C.U.N.Y Hunter and the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music as well as into youth music programs at Mannes, the Manhattan School of Music and Juilliard. He teaches classical guitar, lute, electric styles of guitar including rock and blues, folk guitar and song writing. His patient approach teaches each student differently according to his or her own level, interests, aptitude and age.