Sonic Scientist Frank Vitolo was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. He is currently residing in Brooklyn, New York with a Masters in Jazz Studies at New York University.  In his time at NYU, he was awarded their prestigious Steinhart Talent Award Scholarship and the Barney Josephson Award.  He had the opportunity to study with New York jazz luminaries such as, Dave Liebman, Chris Potter, Tony Moreno, Ari Hoenig, Billy Drummond, Lenny White, Wayne Krantz, Rich Perry and Dave Pietro. You can find Frank performing regularly around New York City and Brooklyn with his booty shaking 70’s soul/jazz quartet, Gunk Funk, and his 7 piece modern neo-soul/R&B group under his own name featuring Edan Krolewicz on vocals.