Born in Glasgow, Scotland, UK in 1953 Grammy Award winner in the category of best instrumental soloist in classical music, guitarist David Russell is world renowned for his superb musicianship and ...

MANUEL BARRUECO Cuban born guitarist Manuel Barrueco is recognized as one of the most important guitarists of our time. His unique artistry has been continually described as that of a superb instru...

Marcin Dylla was born on the 6th of June, 1976 in Chorzów, Poland. He started playing the guitar at the age of 9 at the State School of Music in Ruda Slapska. Between 1995 and 2000 he studied guitar ...

Composer, guitarist and poet Celedonio Romero was born on March 2, 1913 in Cienfuegos, Cuba while his father, an architect from Málaga, was constructing the Concert Hall in Cienfuegos. At a very you...

Thibault Cauvin was born on July 16th 1984 in Bordeaux, France. He is a young, talented guitarist, truly one of the many gifted of his generation. He began playing the classical guitar at the age of ...

Goran Krivokapic was born in 1979 in Belgrade, Serbia. He began studying the guitar at the age of eight with Mićo Poznanović. He graduated from the Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade at S.Toš...

Andrés Segovia was born in 1893 in Linares, Spain. He was one of the most important for the classical guitar in the beginning and mid 20th century. He is considered to be the father of the modern clas...

Sylvain Luc was born in 1965 in Bayonne, in the French Basque Country. Surrounded by the inspiring atmosphere of his eagerly music practicing brothers, he chose the guitar as his instrument at the age...

Django Reinhardt was born in 1910 in Liberchies, Belgium. He was born into the open air, because of the rambling lifestyle of his gypsy parents. He didn’t live in a real house until he turned twenty y...

Zoran Dukić was born in 1969 in Zagreb, Croatia. He started to play the guitar at the early age of six. He attended the courses of the Music Academy of Zagreb where he studied with Darko Petrinj...

Born in 1987 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Mak follows in a distinguished line of some of today’s finest young guitarists emerging from the Croatian school of guitar. Currently studying with Alvaro Pierri o...

Fernando Sor was born on February 14, 1778 in Barcelona, Spain. He was a composer and a guitarist. In Spain he was known as the "Beethoven of the Guitar." Born to a fairly well-off family, Fernando So...

Agustin Barrios Mangore was born in San Juan Bautista de las Misiones, Paraguay on the 5th of May, 1885. He was a virtuosic guitarist and an innovative composer. After Barrios' death in August, 1944, ...

Joaquín Rodrigo was born in Sagunto, Valencia on the 22th of November 1901, on St Cecilia's day, the patron saint of music. At the age of three his life was drastically changed when he lost his sight...

Dionisio Aguado was born 1784 in Madrid, Spain. His surname comes from the Spanish word for "soaked." (This is because an ancient relative of his, who was a knight, returned after a battle caked in mu...

Vicente Asencio, Spanish composer, was born in Valencia, Spain in 1908. He received his very first musical studies at an early age. Studying piano, violin and harmony he entered the Escuela Municipal ...

Leo Brouwer was born on 1st March 1939 in La Habana, Cuba. He received his first musical studies from his father Juan Brouwer who was an amateur guitarist and his aunt, Caridad Mezquida. His father en...

Ferdinando Carulli was born on February 9 1770 in Naples, Italy. His father, Michele, was a distinguished literator, secretary to the delegate of the Neapolitan Jurisdiction. Like many of his contempo...

Mauro Giuliani was born on the 27th of July 1781 in Bisceglie, Italy. He was an Italian guitarist and composer known by many as a leading virtuoso of the nineteenth century. He began his studies in Ba...

Heitor Villa-Lobos was born in 1887 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is one of the prolific composers of his time. He started his studies at the age of six with his father, who worked as a librarian and ...

Antonio Jose was born on 12th December 1902 in Burgos, Spain. He was praised by Maurice Ravel as one who would 'become the greatest Spanish musician of our century', but his arrest and execution near ...

Miguel Llobet Soles was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1878. He began studying the guitar at the age of eleven with Magín Alegre who in that same year took him to hear the blind Spanish virtuoso of the g...

Johann Kaspar Mertz was born in 1806 Pressburg, the Hungarian Pozsony, now the Slovakian capital, Bratislava. He learned the guitar and flute. Little is known of his early life but by 1840 he was esta...

Francisco Tarrega-Eixea was born in Vila-real on November 21st, 1852, in a house beside the Saint Paschal Baylon sanctuary. Both his father Francisco Tarrega-Tirado and his mother Antonia Eixea-Broch ...

Joaquín Turina Pérez was born in 1882 in Seville, Spain. Being surrounded by an artistic environment influenced him as a future musician. When he was four he received an accordion as a gift and to eve...

Federico Moreno Torroba was born in in 1891 in Madrid, Spain and was one of the prominent Spanish composers for classical guitar in the 20th century. He started his musical education at an early age w...

Luigi Rinaldo Legnani was born in 1790 in Ferrara, Italy and was one of the greatest Italian guitarists of the romantic period. Although he was born in Ferrara, his family moved to Ravenna when he was...

Antonio Lauro was born in 1917 in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. His father was a barber who enjoyed singing and playing the guitar, but who died when Antonio was only five years old. The family moved to ...

Giulio Regondi was born in Geneva in 1822. Not much is known about his youth but he was raised by an Italian father (some say step-father or foster father) who was himself a talented guitarist, compos...

Nikita Koshkin was born in 1956 in Moscow, Russia. He received his first guitar from his grandfather, along with a recording of Andres Segovia. Young Nikita was so impressed by this recording that he ...

Alonso Mudarra was born in 1510 and was one of the most important Spanish vihuelists of the Renaissance period. He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the compos...

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was born on April the 3rd 1895 in Florence, Italy. He descended from a prominent banking family that had lived in the city since the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492....

Alberto Ginastera was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1916. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and original South American composers of the 20th century. He began his musical educat...

Enrique Granados was born in 1867 in Lerida, Spain. He began his musical studies at an early age. At first, he studied the piano in Barcelona with Joan Baptista Pujol, who studied with the Mallorcan p...

Jorge Morel was born in 1931 in Argentina. He received his musical education from his father at the age of seven. He went on to study advanced guitar at the Academy of Professor Pablo Escobar in Bueno...

On Music of Giuliani, David Russell, one of the great guitarists of the late 20th century, plays a selection of solo works by one of the great guitarists of the early 19th century. Mauro Giuliani (178...

A documentary about Manuel Barrueco's life.

A documentary about the history of the guitar and Julian Bream's life.

1. Introduction 2. Theme 3. Bourrée 4. Sarabanda 5. Giga 6. Improvisazione 7. Interlude 8. Toccata 9. El arpa del guerrero 10. La huida de ...

Manuel Barrueco: A Gift and a Life Documentary available on DVD Documentary available on DVD - A New Documentary on Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.mlfilms.com/ - A Work In Progress - YouTube Cli...

Manuel Barrueco: A Gift and a Life - Documentary available on DVD - Documentary available on DVD - A New Documentary on Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.mlfilms.com/ - A Work In Progress - YouTube C...