Guy Strazz is a master guitarist and composer who has performed internationally at festivals in Australia, Europe, Africa, India, Indonesia and Japan such as: Jazz Yatra (India), Jakarta Jazz, Perth and Adelaide Arts Festivals, Clusone Jazz Festival (Italy), Japan World Expo, the Sydney Opera House, Melbourne and Wangaratta Jazz Festivals, and the Adelaide International Guitar Festival.

His music is deeply connected to jazz, Afro-Brazilian music, and Indian classical music. He is a Fellow of the Australia Arts Council, having been awarded the Music Fellowship 2001-2003 to compose, perform and research in America, Europe, and India.
 
Guy has worked with such as artists Dale Barlow, Matt McMahon, Don Burrows, Roger Frampton, Casey Bennetto, Bruce Cale, Sandy Evans, Greg Shehan, Ashok Roy, and Sandip Chatterjee. He has crossed paths and played with international guitarists such as Martin Taylor, Mike Stern, V. M. Bhatt, Slava Grigoryan, Mark Johns, George Golla, Tommy Emmanuel, and the late jazz legend Pat Martino.  

His more recent releases and earlier ones originally released on ABC Jazz, Tall Poppies, Rufus, Underscore, and Birdland, are available on Bandcamp. His current collaborations are Great Guitars, 2@1, and StratoFibre

Acknowledgements include a Jazz APRA Award (Australian Performing Rights Association) as well as two APRA Nominations; an Australian Independent Recording (AIR) Nomination; a USA Indie Acoustic Project Nomination, and an Australia Council Music Fellowship. 

He studied guitar/improvisation with George Adie (UK), 
George Golla (Aus), Pt Ashok Roy (India), Charlie Banacos (US), Mike Stern (US), and Pat Martino (US)

Guy holds a PhD (MQRF Scholarship), an MA and other music degrees. He currently teaches composition and musicology at Avondale University and he is head of the guitar program at the Central Coast Conservatorium of Music. He has taught at the University of NSW, Macquarie University, NAISDA, and Sydney Conservatorium of Music.


Guy is an amazing player and a great composer  Mike Stern ABC Jazztrack

Guy Strazz is one of my favourite Indo jazz guitarists  Niranjan Javeri (Downbeat)
We’ll meet again, again, and again  Pat Martino