Marcello Vitale (born in 1969 in Benevento, Italy) is a performer and recording artist on the chitarra battente and baroque guitar,[1] as well as a composer[2][3] and a teacher of these instruments.

[4] In 1997 he performed as a soloist in Lezioni di tarantella, an event organised by Eugenio Bennato, held in Naples at Città della Scienza.

In 1999, together with Lilli Greco and Paolo Raffone, composes and performs the soundtrack of the film Ferdinando e Carolina by the Director Lina Wertmuller, earning the European Prize Massimo Troisi to the music.

In 2001, together with drummer Franco Del Prete, writes the song Pioverà, performed at the Sanremo Festival in the same year by Peppino Di Capri.

In 2005 is called by Roberto De Simone to play the chitarra battente in his work, Il Socrate immaginario by Giovanni Paisiello (Director and musical review by R. De Simone) represented in the month of September to San Carlo Theatre in Naples.