Alirio Diaz in Concert Alirio Diaz is a classical guitarist. (Born November 12, 1923 - in Venezuela) Image File history File links AlirioDiaz. ...
classical guitar A classical guitar, also called a Spanish guitar, is a musical instrument from the guitar family. ...
November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 49 days remaining. ...
1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The eighth of eleven children, he was born at Caserio La Candelaria, a small village near Carora in western Venezuela. From childhood he showed great interest in music. Aged 16 he ran away from home to Carora, where he went to school. He later went to Trujillo, in the Venezuelan Andes and studied both the saxophone and clarinet under Laudelino Mejias while working as a typesetter in a newspaper. He also studied English and typewriting before going to Caracas in 1945 to study the guitar at the Escuela Superior de Musica José Angel Lamas under Raul Borges. The name Trujillo is shared by several different places: Trujillo, Colombia, a municipality in the Valle del Cauca department. ...
City motto: Ave MarÃa SantÃsima, sin pecado concebida, en el primer instante de su ser natural. ...
In 1950 the Venezuelan Government awarded him a scholarship to continue his guitar studies in Madrid, Spain under Regino Sainz de la Maza. In the same year he performed his first guitar concert in Europe. In 1951 he went to Sienna, Italy in search of Andres Segovia. Here he impresses Segovia with his flawless technique and extensive repertoire. Three years later, he became the assistant and substitute to Segovia and started performing in some of the most prestigious concert halls in Europe. This article does not cite its references or sources. ...
This page is not about Siena, Italy. ...
Andr s Segovia (February 21, 1893 – June 3, 1987) was a Spanish classical guitarist and is generally considered to be the father of the modern classical guitar movement by most modern scholars. ...
Alirio Diaz has performed all over the world and combines baroque music with modern Latin American composers, such as Lauro, Sojo and Mangoré. He currently teaches in Rome and performs in concert with his son Senio. During the European winter, he lives in his natal town, La Candelaria. Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In arts, the Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the style that dominated it. ...
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