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Rafael Aguirre

 

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Rafael Aguirre Miñarro, born in Malaga in 1984, began his musical studies at the age of seven in Malaga Conservatory. He was trained by Teresa Garcia de Candido, Manuel Jesus Perez Vela, Miguel Tojar and Javier Chamizo always receiving the best marks. He attended numerous master classes where he met guitarists with worldwide reputation, such as Joaquin Clerch, Leo Brouwer, David Russell, Manuel Barrueco, Pavel Steidl, Marco Socias, Roberto Aussel, Costas Cotsiolis, Thomas Müller-Pering, Ricardo Gallen, Alex Garrobe, Alirio Diaz, Ivan Rijos and Jean Maurice Mourat.
When he was 16 years old he made his debut as a soloist with the Young Philharmonic of Malaga performing „Concierto de Aranjuez“, and he gave concerts in well-known concert halls in Morocco and Spain (Teatro Villamarta, Teatro Cervantes, Centre Moulay Rachid of Casablanca, Instituto Cervantes of Tanger). Recently he gave concerts, conducted by Mark-Andreas Schlingensiepen, with the symphony orchestra of the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule in the „Tonhalle“ in Düsseldorf and maked his debut in Berlin in the “Akademie der Wissenschaften Berlin-Brandenburg“ (Academy of Scientists Berlin Brandenburg) playing in the Leibniz Saal and in the Spanish Embassy.He has played with the Almeria Simphony Orchestra and the Andalusian young Orchestra under the baton of Michael Thomas.

 


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