Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, Ron LoCurto has been a student of the guitar for over 25 years. Cutting his teeth on heavy guitar driven rock and thirsting for more, his tastes grew to include anything he could get his hands on. He has forged his own unique style, encompassing all types of music from all around the globe. It's this passion that has served him well over the past 20 years as he has honed his craft playing with some of the top musicians in the area, performing Rock, Jazz, Reggae, Indian-influenced acoustic music, and anything else that comes his way. Like a magnifying glass, Ron focuses these seemingly disparate elements into a single focused point, burning away boundaries, unifying many into one. Listen and you will hear the intensity of Rock, the cerebral, heady nature of Jazz, the spirituality of a Hindustani classical musician. Filtered through the mind and hands of a soul searching for himself in the ethereal world of music, his sound is at once personal, and yet familiar. A sound not driven by "corporate, mainstream norms" of what music should be, but by a personal vision of what music can be.

High points along the way include a 1994 release called Kaleidoscope, a fusion disc with some of the area's best musicians...performing with avant garde drummer, Bobby Previte's Voodoo West ensemble, celebrating the music on Miles Davis' album, Bitches Brew. Jeff Miers of the Buffalo News described Ron's playing in this outfit as "liquid grace." In 1998 Ron and longtime musical partner, Ravi Padmanabha, released West of East, an album of acoustic guitar and tabla (Indian hand drums) that fuses the traditions of Western Jazz and Eastern Classical music. Perhaps one of Ron's favorite musical ventures, a long-awaited second Talarasa disc is in the works. Ron was also chosen to perform as a finalist in the first North American Guitar Competition and recently won 2nd place in the 2006 Competition.

Currently, Ron is busy performing in support of his latest recording, Pattern Seeking Primates. Featuring John Bacon on drums and Jack Kulp on bass, the band delivers it's own signature version of the Rock-Jazz-Jam Band sound, weaving multiple influences into it's own sonic landscape. Just one of the new album's favorable reviews comes from Robert Silverstein of 20th Century Guitar - "LoCurto rips through his fretboard with compelling precision." Leading the group through eight original songs (two of which were penned by drummer John Bacon) and one amazing cover of Bjork's "Human Behavior", this latest disc finds Ron at the top of his game, doing what he does best...redefining the instrument with every note he plays! The CD is currently getting regular airplay on 107.7 FM The Lake, and has also garnered attention in Italy, Holland and Australia so far.