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...

Ricardo Cobo was born in the City of Cali, Colombia. He is widely regarded as one of the leading virtuosos of the new Classic Guitar generation. Born in a family of musicians he was obviously introduc...

Ana Vidovic was born in Karlovac, a small town near Zagreb, Croatia. She started playing the guitar at the early age of 5 and by the time she was 7 she had given her first public performance. Four yea...

Angel Romero is considered one of the world's leading guitarists. Born in Malaga, Spain, he made his professional debut at the age of six and in the United States at the Hollywood Bowl when he was onl...

Costas Cotsiolis was born in Greece and he is considered to be truly one of the greatest guitarists of our time. He gained popularity with his numerous tours all around the world being accepted both b...

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...

Matteo Mela was born in 1971 in Imperia, Italy. He was a student of Renzo Doria Miglieta in his hometown but moved to Cremona to pursue his studies of musicology at the University of Cremona. There he...

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...

Dimitri Illarionov was born in 1979 in Russia. He is one of the most brilliant young classical guitarists of his generation. He studied with Natalia Dmitrieva at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory a...

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...

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...

John Duarte was born on October the 2nd 1919 in Sheffield. He was one hundred percent English despite the name. His father was Scottish and his mother English. He received his musical education at Ma...

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...

Sérgio Assad was born in 1952 in Brazil and is one of the world’s important contemporary composer for the classical guitar. He often performs in duo with his brother Odair Assad and together they form...

Emilio Pujol was born on 7th of April 1886 in Granadella, a little village just outside Lerida , Spain. He began studying the guitar with Francisco Tárrega at the Conservatory of Barcelona in 1901, at...

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 ...

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 ...

Andrew York was born in 1958 in the United States and is one of the remarkable, most visible and innovative classical guitarist-composers of our time. He grew up in Woodbridge, Virginia, and graduated...

Alexandre Tansman was born in 1897 in Łódź, Poland. During that time the country did not exist as a nation, being part of Tsarist Russia. He was born in a wealthy family and he began his fir...

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...

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 ...

Regino Sainz de la Maza was born in 1896 in Burgos, Spain and was a classical guitarist and composer. He received his musical education at the age of ten when he got his first guitar. He studied with ...

Egberto Gismonti was born in 1947 in Carmo, Brazil. He started his musical studies with the piano at the early age of seven. Also studied classical music for 15 years, with Nadia Boulanger (or...

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...

Manuel Maria Ponce was born in 1882 in Fresnillo, Zacatecas. He was a distinguished Mexican composer. Born in a small provincial Mexican town to modestly prosperous parents who gave him his first pian...

Matteo Carcassi was born in Florence, Italy in 1792. Along with Giuliani, Sor, Aguado he has contributed to the expansion of the guitar repertoire. He began studying the piano at first but also learne...

Napoléon Coste was born in 1806 in Amondans, France. He began his guitar studies under his mother’s tuition, who was an accomplished player. As a teenager he quickly became familiar with the instrume...

Silvius Leopold Weiss was born in 1687 , in Breslau, Silesia. He is considered to be one of the greatest and most technically accomplished lute players of all times. He learned to play the lute from h...