Agustin Rodolfo Sarno

I'm a professional guitarist and music educator from Argentina with twenty years of playing experience and ten years of teaching. On the academic side, I completed my degree as a Music Technician (Classical Guitar) at the Manuel de Falla Municipal Conservatory of Buenos Aires in 2023, and I am currently finishing my Bachelor's degree in Argentine Music at the National University of San Martín (UNSAM), where I am in the thesis stage.

My teaching career spans a range of institutions and contexts. From 2016 to 2017, I taught group music and body expression classes for teenagers at Fundación Bajo Boulogne in Buenos Aires. Between 2021 and 2022, I worked as a music and guitar teacher at Rock & Rec Music School in Buenos Aires, teaching children, teenagers, and adults across all levels. In 2023 and 2024, I served as the music teacher at Escuela Primaria Paula Albarracín de Sarmiento in Buenos Aires, where I was responsible for all music classes from first through seventh grade. Since 2025, I have been teaching music and guitar at La Panadería Cultural (a cultural center in Londres, Catamarca) and at Biblioteca Popular Fray Mamert Esquiú in Belén, Catamarca. 

As a performer, I have been working as a session guitarist since 2018, playing tango, bolero, Argentine folk music, bossa nova, and jazz — including professional engagements in Costa Rica, Mexico, Perú, Bolivia, Spain, Berlín. I worked as a producer, arranger and guitarrist in Golondrinas de Arrabal and Che-Kintu. Some of the places i've played are: Centro Cultural Matienzo, Sheikob's Bagels (bs. as.), Choriarte, Arrabalito (Los Cabos, mx), Sinema Bar and Lizard Cafe (Spain), Mercado de Kinsa Molle, Apu Organic (Bolivia, Perú) amongst many others.

I'm currently performing regularly as part of a tango and folk duo in the Belén and Londres area of Catamarca.

My primary specialty is tango and Argentine folk music — styles I've studied, performed, and lived with throughout my career. I teach them not just as techniques, but as musical languages with their own history, phrasing, and feel. Students who want access to these traditions from a teacher who is genuinely immersed in them will find something here that's hard to come by outside of Argentina.

Beyond tango and folk, I teach classical guitar, jazz, bossa nova, blues, and rock. I also work with music theory, composition, and arranging for students who want to go deeper than just learning songs — whether that means understanding harmony, writing their own music, or developing a personal musical voice.

My teaching approach is fully individualized. Before we get into technique or repertoire, I want to understand where you are, where you want to go, and what kind of music genuinely excites you. From there, every lesson is built around your specific goals. We work at your pace — no rush. My focus is on making sure that every session ends with something concrete: a technique that clicks, a musical idea that opens up, a passage that finally feels right. Real progress, every lesson.

I'm most comfortable working with intermediate and advanced students who are ready to go deep — but I'm happy to take on motivated beginners who come with genuine curiosity and commitment to practice.

My equipment includes a Focusrite audio interface and a Sennheiser microphone, so audio quality in online lessons is clean and clear — important for a music lesson in a way it isn't for most other subjects.