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Giuliano Balestra was born in Rome in 1939. He began studying music very young, and in 1955 was admitted to the newly instituted Guitar ciass at Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. He studied with Benedetto Di Ponio, and graduated in 1962.
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Giuliano Balestra was born in Rome in 1939. He began studying music very young, and in 1955 was admitted to the newly instituted Guitar ciass at Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. He studied with Benedetto Di Ponio, and graduated in 1962.
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Of fundamental importance to his artistic formation are the courses he attended
between 1960 and 1962 at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, and then in Spain at
Santiago de Composteia and Lerida with Andres Segovia and Emilio Pujol. With the
latter he studied tablature for lute, vihuela and baroque guitar.
On 23 Aprii 1959, he held his first concert in Rome, at the International
Artistic Association in Via Margutta, and in 1962 he recorded, for the first
time on Italian television, Spanish music from the Renaissance on its original
instrument: the vihuela.
He began his brilliant career as a concert musician on 19 March 1968 at the
Chopin Pleyel Hall in Paris. Since then he has played in major cities all over the
world, and has also composed and performed his own music.
He has taught since 1965, and currently holds a position at Santa Cecilia
Conservatory in Rome. He is regularly invited to give masterclasses in Guitar in
Italy and abroad. He promotes the Guitar both as a solo and as ensemble
instrument.
He is the author of various publications, including a Monography of Fernando Sor,
and has recorded for Basf, Edipan and Timaclub.
In 1972 he founded the international guitar competion "Fernando Sor",
of which he is currently the President.