Marco Tamayo was born in La Havana, Cuba where he started playing the guitar at the age of three with his father. He studied with Antonio Alberto Rodríguez and Leo Brouwer, Harold Gramatges, and later in Europe at the University of Music in Munich (Germany, class of J. Clerch), and at the Mozarteum University of Arts in Salzburg were he studied with Eliot Fisk (guitar), Rainner Schmid (violinist), and Anthony Spiri (cembalist), Keneth Gilbert (cembalist), among others. When he made his first public appearance at the age of six national TV channels in Cuba presented him as a prodigy young talent of the guitar. At the age of ten he was already touring former DDR and Bulgaria with his brother. ...