GUITAR PLAYERS IN MEXICO

(Alphabetical order)

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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José Manuel Aguilera
CDMX

Jose Manuel Aguilera

José Manuel Aguilera is a Mexican composer, guitarist, singer, producer and writer. Since 1993 he is the leader of the rock group La Barranca. In addition, he has been part of Sangre Asteka, Nine Rain and Jaguares. ... 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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Julio Revueltas
CDMX

Julio Revueltas

Julio Revueltas is a jazz and rock instrumental musician and composer who already has more than 25 years of career and 5 studio albums, among which Rajneesh his most recent record production stands out. This outstanding musician is one of the few who knows how to interpret melodies on a very peculiar and little-known instrument called "viotarra" which is a hybrid between a guitar and a violin. With the physical appearance of a guitar, this instrument has the peculiarity of being played with a bow and emitting truly magical sounds.… Read more

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Lalo Galván
CDMX

Lalo Galván (… -2021)

He was a guitarist, composer, session musician, teacher, and musical director from Mexico City. Lalo Galván has developed as a Jazz, Rock and Blues Musician and has combined this with other related activities of the Music Industry, such as teaching, as a guitar teacher and other related topics, from theoretical teaching to the composition of arrangements and orchestration.… Read more

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Manuel López Ramos
CDMX

Manuel López Ramos (1929-2006)

Manuel López Ramos was born in Buenos Aires in 1929 and settled in Mexico in the fifties, his entire guitar career was developed in Mexico, promoting his international career and training most of the country's guitarists, which is why he is included as part of this section of Mexican guitarists since all his life on the guitar and the most important thing in his career was for Mexico.… 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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Omán Kaminsky
CDMX

Oman Kaminsky

A graduate of the INBA Higher School of Music in Mexico City and the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague in the Netherlands, Oman Kaminsky studied under the guidance of teacher Isabelle Villey and teacher Zoran Dukic.… Read more

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