Biography
Angel was born in Mexico where he began his career in Music. He studied at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Musica in Madrid and finished his studies at the Ecole Superior de Musique et Art Dramatique, Schola Cantorum de Paris with First Honours. He has been five times awarded the prize of Arts in Mexico by the National Council for the Culture and the Arts.
Winner of the International Competition at the Rachmaninoff Conservatory in Paris he was invited by The Trinity College in Cambridge to play for the Heitor Villa-Lobos hundredth anniversary celebration. He has been a guest both teaching and performing at Music Festivals in several European countries as well as in China and the United States.
You can read a great deal more about Angel and his life and work in Ireland on www.angelguitar.net
‘An impressive testimony of the high art in inspired guitar playing’
Fono Forum, Germany
‘Angel proves to be a musician of considerable artistic brilliance and highest vigorous musicality too … an impressive achievement’
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland
‘Angel was memorable for the variation in tone colours he could produce from rasping harshness to very sweet dolce sound’
Sara Clarke, Guitar Magazine, London