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 ...

Tilman Hoppstock Born in 1961, Tilman Hoppstock studied guitar and cello in Darmstadt and Cologne, Germany. He has been teaching guitar classes at the Gutenberg University in Mainz and the Academy ...

Alvaro Pierri was born 1952 in Montevideo, Uruguay, in a family of musicians. He received his early musical education from his mother, Ada Estades, on the paino and his aunt, Olga Pierri, on the guita...

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...

Joe Pass was born in 1929 in New Jersey, U.S.A. He grew up in Pennsylvania into a non-musical family. He started playing the guitar after he was inspired by actor Gene Autry’s portrayal of a guitar pl...

Sean Paiman Samimi completed his undergraduate studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Jason Vieaux and John Holmquist. A native of Iran, he started piano studies at the age 9. At age 16 his ...

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, ...

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...

Songs from the Renaissance period played on the lute.