Ernesto Dmitruk was born in September,1960. He studied guitar with Pino Marrone, James Tobias, Francisco Rivero y Ricardo Palazzo Anna, all of them well reputed local instructors. He took harmony and composition lessons with Manolo Juarez (famous composer and pianist). He attend to Berklee College of Music seminars in Buenos Aires with instructor Jim Kelly, in wich he got a scholarship to continue with his studies in Boston. He gives guitar lessons since he was 19 , he was a columnist for the"EL musiquero" (a popular music magazine). At the present time he is in charge of the rhythm guitar and chord melody department of the ITMC (Instituto Tecnológico de Música Contemporánea), a local filial of the Musicians Institute of Los Angeles, California. He played and recorded with some of the most important fusion bands of Buenos Aires such as Meridiano, Touch, El Trueno, Marakamidi, La banda '86, Siembra, etc. He also has recorded in contemporary Tango produccion like “Tango Libre” of the composer Hugo Potenza. In the professional field he performed and recorded with renowned local pop and rock stars (Silvina Garré, Lito Vitale, Eddie Sierra, Jose Velez, Andrea Serri, Ignacio Copani, Manuel Wizt, Maria Rosa Yorio, Alejandro Lerner , Juan Carlos Baglietto, etc.). He is an specialist in sequencers, synth programming and Midi-Guitar synth. Over the last eight years he is a member of Sergio Denis band (one of the most popular singers in Argentina) with whom he did numerous shows all across the country as well as in the most important theatres and stadiums of Buenos Aires (Luna Park, Teatro Opera, Teatro Gran Rex, etc.). He also recorded five albums with him and was the producer of two of them. Presenly he is dedicated to the composition of the music for his band focused in Argentinian Contemporary Folk music.

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