Guitarist and composer Mike Baggetta is originally from Agawam, Massachusetts, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Inspired by his father, he began playing the guitar while in high school after previously studying violin and trombone. Mike went on to study music at Rutgers University, where he received his Bachelor and Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies. His talents have been recognized through a scholarship from the New Jersey Jazz Society, an invitation to participate in Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead residency program at the Kennedy Center, performing as a finalist in the Fish Middleton Jazz Scholarship competition at the East Coast Jazz Festival and being one of seven international guitarists to compete in the Gibson Jazz Guitar Competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Mike leads his own quartet performing his original music, a trio reinterpreting the jazz repertoire through his personal view, and co-leads the duo TIN/BAG with trumpeter Kris Tiner. In addition, he has had the pleasure of performing and/or recording with Tom Harrell, Bucky Pizzarelli, Ruth Brown, Conrad Herwig, Tony Reedus, Ralph Bowen, Kevin Norton, Joe Fonda, Bill McHenry and violinist Christian Howes. Mike's most influential teachers have been Ted Dunbar, Vic Juris, Ralph Bowen, Stanley Cowell, and Conrad Herwig. He also cites master classes with guitarist Jim Hall as being particularly insightful.