Manuel Barrueco

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Manuel Barrueco

Manuel Barrueco (born December 16, 1952 in Santiago de Cuba ) is a Cuban classical guitarist .

Life

Barrueco started playing guitar at the age of 8 and attended the Conservatorio Esteban Salas in his native Cuba. In 1967 he emigrated to the USA with his parents . There he was the only guitarist to study with Aaron Shearer at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore , where he is now a teacher. At the age of 22 he became the first guitarist to win the Concert Artists Guild Award in 1974 . In the same year he first appeared in New York's Carnegie Recital Hall . As part of his international concert activities, he played in numerous important concert halls such as B. the Royal Albert Hall in London , the Wiener Musikverein , the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Berlin Philharmonic .

Among other things, his interpretations of the 2nd and 4th lute suites by Johann Sebastian Bach and the etudes by Heitor Villa-Lobos, collected on the album 300 Years Of Guitar Masterpieces , became famous .

Barrueco is a co-founder of the guitar class at the Manhattan School of Music . He plays Robert Ruck's instruments.

Discography

literature

  • Peter Päffgen: ... Promote and train your own personality ... An interview with Manuel Barrueco. In: Guitar & Lute. Volume 4, Hef 2, 1982, pp. 75-80.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hannes Fricke: Myth guitar: history, interpreters, great hours. Reclam, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-020279-1 , p. 194 f.
  2. Peter Päffgen (1982), pp. 75 and 78.