STEPHEN SALERNO (guitarist, composer) is an active performer of both jazz and classical music. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Yale University, S.U.N.Y at Purchase, Dartmouth College, Real Arts Works (Hartford, CT), St. Bonaventure University, SUNY at Stony Brook, The French Institute, Greenwich House, La Mama, New Music Cafe, Knitting Factory Jazz Festival, The Roulette Center for New Music, The Ravinia Festival, Des Moines Arts Center, Bethlehem Musikfest, Blues Alley, Middle East Cafe (Boston), the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival, the Silda Jazz Festival (Haugesund, Norway), a week long engagement at "The Jazz
Club" in Hong Kong. In October 2000, he performed a weeklong engagement with the Ray Anderson Quintet at Sweet Basil's, NYC.

Mr. Salerno is a member of the Ray Anderson Quartet and Quintet and leads a variety of groups, including his trio, Exiles (Mark Helias & Tom Rainey), The Tone Rangers (a Western Swing Group), Splatt! (a trio with multi-reed player, Marty Erhlich and sousaphonist, Ray Anderson) and Subject to Change, an acoustic string trio (with Todd Reynolds, violin & Dean Johnson, double bass), The Mala Waldron Quartet (with Miriam Sullivan, bass & Mike Thompson drums), The Pheeroan AkLaff Quartet (with Nat Adderly Jr., piano and Chullo Gatewood, bass) and is a member of the Afro-Cuban group, Funkloric.

He has performed with Jaco Pastorius, Kenny Wheeler, John Abercrombie, Ray Anderson, Mark Dresser, Bennie Wallace, Lee Konitz, James Emery, Paul Smoker, Mark Helias, Al Grey, Pheeroan akLaff, Gerry Hemingway, Mike Formanek, Cameron Brown, Tom Rainey, Ratso Harris, Tommy Campbell Santi Debriani, Ed Schuller, Kenny Davis, Mike Clark, Mark Feldman, Don Thompson, Eddie Marshall, Albert Mangelsdorf, John Lindberg, Lou Soloff, Regina Carter, Bobby Previte, Bob Mintzer, Randy Brecker, Marvin Stamm, Gene Jackson, Chris Potter, Drew Gress, Matt Wilson, Ken Filano, Art Baron, Howard Johnson, Jose Davilla, Nat Adderly Jr., Kenny Rampton, Billy Drewes, Jeff Hirshfield, Lonnie Plaxico, Eddie Allen and Adam Nussbaum.

Stephen Salerno has recorded with Jay Leonhart & Tom Smith, “When You Are With The One You Love” (Alcamo Records:1992); Kevin Smith, “The Highway Man” (1993); Carol Emmanuel, “Tall Trees” (Koch/Jazz: 1995); Subject To Change: Live at the Landon Gallery (1996); Linda Ciofalo,“Take The High Road” (1998); Paul Smoker, Standard Deviations (CIMP #186: 1998), & “Mirabile Dictu” (CIMP #233: 2001); Ray Anderson, “Bone Meal” (2001), Frank Bellucci “No Bells And Whistles” (Yogi Records > 2002) and a soon-to-be released recording with the Mala Waldron Quartet. He is featured on the soundtrack recording for John Feldman's film, Dead Funny starring Andrew McCarthy and
Elizabeth Peña.

In 1998, he received a commission from the Oberon Foundation to compose music for violin, guitar, tuba and three tap dancers that premiered at the Staller Center at Stony Brook University.
His classical group, The Constellation Trio (with Linda Wetherill, flute & Terry Keevil, oboe) is the honored recipient of the NYSCA Decentralization Grant (2003) and the Suffolk County Cultural Affairs Grant (2003). Composers Joel Thome and Robert Martin have written works for the Constellation Trio.

He is the Founding Director of the Jazz Program at Stony Brook University where he is completing his Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in 20th Century Performance.
Along with guitarist/producer Jay Graydon, he has recently been appointed as a member of the Musician's Advisory Board for D'Addario Strings.

Starting in the Fall 2003, he will be presenting a Theory and a Guitar Tutorial online course (Fall & Spring semesters) for the website, guitar.com .
Also starting in the Fall 2003, he will be teaching Jazz and
Classical guitar at Adelphi University.