Nicky Skopelitis is an American guitarist, composer and multi-instrumentalist who emerged on the New York experimental scene in the 1980s and has worked across jazz, rock, avant-garde and world-fusion genres. He has developed a style that blends electric and acoustic stringed instruments with improvisation and non‑Western timbres, moving between ensemble work, studio collaborations and solo releases that emphasise cross‑cultural textures and exploratory approaches.