Mauro Squillante

Mauro Squillante is a plucked-instruments researcher, a mandolinist and president of the Accademia Mandolinistica Napoletana (Neapolitan Mandolin Academy) in Naples, Italy, teaching classical-music mandolin.

He is important in the movement to revive the Neapolitan mandolin in its native city, where the instrument went out of style and its history became hard to access.

[1] His specialty is "ancient plucked string instruments" including the mandolin, mandola, mandolone, colascione and zither.

[1] The house works as a place where tourists can be exposed to the mandolin.

[2] Squillante is a graduate of the Pollini Conservatory of Padua and did further studying under with Hopkinson Smith and Crawford Young (at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis), Enrico Baiano, Federico Marincola, Emilia Fadini and Edoardo Egüez.