Flamenco Guitar and Classical Guitar Player, is an Irish guitarist with a strong Spanish link, he started his career in Music at the National
Conservatory of Music in Mexico City and later at the Real Conservatorio
Superior de Musica in Madrid (Spanish composers for guitar) and
finished his studies of Renaissance and Baroque music (English,
French, German, Italian and Spanish) and specialized in French and
Spanish styles at the "Ecole Superior de Musique et Art Dramatique,
Schuola Cantorum de Paris" in Paris and graduate with First honors. Amongst
many other achievements Angel has been five times awarded the prize
of Arts in Mexico by the National Council for the Culture and the
Arts.
Winner of the International Competition at the
Rakmaninoff Conservatory in Paris he was invited by The Trinity
College in Cambridge to play for the Heitor Villa-Lobos hundredth
anniversary celebration. He has been guest both teaching and performing
of Music Festivals in several countries in Europe as well as in
the Orient, in China and the US.
Angel is a true professional performer of Flamenco guitar and of Classical guitar. His interpretations of Spanish music makes
him the favourite of lovers of Spanish culture. Flamenco is in his
veins, gypsies and "payos" had given him the knowledge
and the passion of this striking music. His performances at art
exhibitions and in Festivals all over the Country such as the Munster
Poetry Festival, The Cervantes Institute, the Poetry Now Festival,
Ennis, Mayo, Galway, the Dingle Arts Festival, the West Cork Arts
Festival, Wexford, Slaigo, Donegal, Derry, Ballymena, Belfast, the
London International Guitar Festival, opening artist at the 70th
anniversary of Jose Romanillos in Siguenza in Spain at the Dublin
Guitar Week and in Trinity College Dublin have had a great impact
on the public and on the artistic community in Ireland (as it has
in Europe). And last year opened the Waltons Guitar Festival of
Ireland which has had as main artist: John Williams. Angel was also
invited last year to the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in China
where he gave concert and master classes for 8 days lessons@angelguitar.net and in Beijing at the Hart Concert Hall recording his recital for
his new DVD "ANGEL: LIVE FROM BEIJING" and also TV appearances
at the Chinese National TV (CCTV). The Festival of World Cultures again this year 2008.
Angel's six classical CDs recorded in London
and produced by a German Label have also received a great acclaim
from audiences and press all over the world with outstanding reviews
in specialist magazines, (check up the web for details reviews).
All this gained him the honor of playing twice for the President
of the Republic of Ireland Mrs. Mary McAleese and for several other
personalities from the intellectual life of this country such as
Seamus Heaney and Patrick Galvin. Angel has done four CDs in Ireland
"FLAMENCO IN TEMPLE BAR" and "ANGEL PLAYS CLASSICAL
GUITAR" are in shops downloads
and his Classical CD also published in Dublin "INCOMPLETE CENTURY" www.incompletecentury.com buy
here or in iTunes. Also a DVD is coming with Angel's Flamenco
compositions "ANGEL: LIVE FROM BEIJING". And now only on the cyber-space: VILLALOBOS- THE SOUNDS OF BRAZIL, ( iTunes ).
Angel is also
VIENTO Y FUEGO's director, a Spanish music group info@vientoyfuego.net
Angel's repertoire is of Spanish roots, which allows him to express
(as he says) his "passion for life and love of
music". angel@angelguitar.net |