BIOGRAPHY

Expressive, impassioned player with astonishing technical prowess (Washington Post, USA) A master guitarist with true star quality (Classical Guitar Magazine, England) Chilean guitarist Carlos Perez has won top prizes in major international competitions in Europe and America, winning first prize in: Alirio Daz Competition, Venezuela; Ren Bartoli Competition, France; Printemps de La Guitare, Belgium; Forum Gitarre, Austria; Fundacin Guerrero Spain and Joaqun Rodrigo Competition Spain. He took an interest in guitar playing at an early age through his father and studied at the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile with Ernesto Quezada, where he graduated with top honors. He has issued ten CDs, two DVDs, and recorded at several European radios. He has given recitals in over thirty countries in North, Central, and South America as well as Europe, and has played with orchestras from England, Belgium, the United States, Germany, Lithuania, Spain, Russia, Portugal, Poland and Chile. The various international venues where he has played include Carnegie Hall (USA), the Berlin Philarmonie (Germany), Auditorio Nacional (Spain), Royal Festival Hall (England) and Teatro Monumental (Spain). Editions Henry Lemoine of France, Productions dOz of Canada and Grenzland-Verlag Theo Hsgen of Germany have published some of his arrangements and compositions. Carlos Prez has participated in guitar and chamber festivals world-wide and is Proffessor at the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile. He was awarded the position of the 2011 Elena Diaz-Verson Amos Eminent Scholar in Latin American Studies by Columbus State University, GA-USA in 2011. (www.carlosperez.cl)