MEXICAN GUITAR PLAYERS

A website dedicated to the dissemination and promotion of Guitarists in Mexico and to publicize their projects and events. The largest Directory of Mexican Guitarists.

Celes Garin
Oaxaca

Celes Garin

Guitarist of Noesis Ñuu-Savi, a musical group originally from Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, Mexico, in their musical style they fuse the sounds of different cultures of the State of Oaxaca, made up of four brothers of Oaxacan origin dedicated to the dissemination of traditional music Mexican with sounds of an electric nature, also interpreting pieces of classical music by composers like Beethoven, mixing sounds such as blues, metal, rock, folk and Chilean.
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Carlos Santana
Jalisco

Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana is a Mexican jazz-rock and Latin rock guitarist, multi-Grammy winner. He is considered the 15th best guitarist of all time, according to Rolling Stone magazine.… Read more

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Ana Rizo
Michoacan

Ana Rizo

Ana Rizo is a guitarist and singer-songwriter who was born in La Piedad, Michoacán. He studied Engineering and Music Production in Guadalajara, Jalisco. At the end of his degree, he won a scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music, in the city of Boston, MA ... Read more

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Francisco Lelo de Larrea
New Lion

Francisco Lelo de Larrea

He began his musical studies at the Higher School of Music in Monterrey, to later continue them at the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico City. He has a degree in Jazz with a specialty in guitar, graduated from the Higher School of Music of the INBA.… Read more

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Juan Helguera
Yucatan

Juan Helguera (1932-2020)

Mexican guitarist, composer, chronicler and researcher. Considered a true diffuser of the guitar in Mexico and the world. An essential figure in the musical field. His radio program "La Guitarra en el Mundo" had more than three decades of success. ... Read more

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Miguel Alcázar
CDMX

Miguel Alcazar

Guitarist, teacher, musicologist and composer; He has recorded several albums, among which the series "The history of the guitar" stands out, which includes works and styles from the 16th to the 20th centuries. He obtained first place in the composition competition of the Mexican Guitar Associations, he also won the Beryl Rubinstein Scholarship in Composition award from the Cleveland Institute of Music. In addition to being a concert guitarist, Miguel Alcázar composed the opera “La mujer y su sombra”, which was premiered in 1981 at the Palacio de Bellas Artes and won the Morales Estévez Foundation competition.… Read more

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Jorge Cárdenas
Jalisco

Jorge Cardenas

Jorge Cárdenas is a musician, guitarist and composer originally from Guadalajara Jalisco dedicated to the study and performance of Jazz. He studied guitar in the Music Department of the University of Guadalajara under the tutelage of the teachers Winfried Kellner and Juan Carlos Martinez Zavala. Later, he took advanced courses with teachers such as Hector Rodriguez, Francisco Lelo De Larrea, Tom Kessler, Ken Basman, Werther Ellerbrook, Simone Iannaerelli, Andrea Vettoretti and Jaime Soria Porto.… Read more

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