Guitarist and composer engaged on several fronts of the jazz music and contemporary music scene. He graduated with honors in Jazz Guitar and Jazz Music at the Conservatory N. Rota of Monopoli with a thesis on the compositional techniques of Henry Threadgill. His style of playing and composing is rooted in the jazz tradition, going as far as radical improvisation, dodecaphony and serialism. He is the leader of two ensembles, the Livio Bartolo Soundscapes Trio with Andrea Esperti and Marco Calabretti and the Variable Unit which boasts four record releases to his credits. He currently collaborates with the collective of "The Human Web" of Francesca Remigi, the new project of trumpetist "Pietro Corbascio" and many more. He has to his credit 12 records to his name.