Amanda Monaco is an Associate Professor in the Guitar Department at Berklee and at New England Conservatory. She has performed at famed venues and with artists such as Milt Hinton and the Mingus Orchestra. The New York City Jazz Record calls Amanda's guitar playing “well within the modernist canon, but quite distinctive: her phrasing is often made up of tartly dissonant chords and insistent yet off-kilter repetitions that remind one of Grant Green by way of Andrew Hill... her playing is utterly unique, a breath of fresh air in the cookie-cutter climes of both mainstream and free jazz.”