Guitarist
Composer
& Educator

The Baldassarre Rock Orchestra is a magical world where the power of rock and classical music unite in a spectacle of sound, lights, and symphonic grandeur! 🎉 What’s new this year… 🕰️ Time traveler theme 1870s meets the 1970’s! 🎤 Introducing Mark Boals on lead vocals 👤 Introducing alter ego Canio Baldassarre (pronounced “Kahn-yo”) 👗 Theatrical Wardrobe 💡 Stunning Light show 🆕 New Baldassarre Music 🎻 Opus216 string quartet – wireless & better than ever 🤘 Classic rock songs with strings (including Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Beatles & more) 👕 New Merch 🎁 Plenty more surprises – stay tuned!🤩

To Grammy Award voting members: we’re grateful for your consideration! Excited to announce we’ve received official recording industry recommendation as a 2024 Grammy nomination contender. Album of the Year (Grand Boulevard) and Best Rock Song (“You’re Wrong”). Step 1 is contention for nomination. Step 2 nomination. Step 3 Grammy Award. First step complete!! Thanks to all participating musicians, engineers, and producers. And special thanks to Erick Anderson for his Billboard Magazine Annual Contender Issue design.

Grand Boulevard is a 16-track album (55 Minutes) that runs the gamut of musical genres, incorporating guitar rock, funk, ballads, R&B, reggae, and orchestral pop, all featuring Baldassarre as chief axeman and composer.

Composed primarily during the isolation of covid at world-famous Abbey Road Studios in London, Grand Boulevard is produced by Phil Naish, who has produced several Grammy Award-winning albums.

The album is receiving early raves from the press with the UK’s Fireworks Magazine declaring the album to be “flawlessly crafted, genre-spanning and offering something for everyone.  Highly impressive!”  Progsheet enthused that the album is “bursting with strong, catchy compositions and memorable guitar acrobatics…” The UK’s Powerplay avowed, “This Grand Boulevard has roses along the way”.