Andrea Gasperi

Born in 1964, Andrea Gasperi graduated in guitar at the conservatory of his hometown, Trento (Italy), under the guidance of Cesare Lutzemberger. He then continued his studies with Fisk, Barrueco, Brouwer, Ghiglia and Diaz. In 1990 he moved to Paris to study with Alberto Ponce at the Ecole Normale de Musique, where he gained the "Diplom Superieur d'Execution"; in 1992 he became Ponce's teaching assistant at the Ecole Nationale de Musique de Argenteuil. In 1997 he began teaching guitar at the Minipolifonici Music School of Trento. He has played in Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and the U.S. and on Italian national television, both as a soloist and in chamber groups. A prize-winner of the guitar competitions of Carpi (1985) and Aix en Provence (1994), he received a musical grant from the publishers Berben in 1996. In 1996 he recorded a solo CD of Spanish and Latin American music, and in 1998 made a further CD recording entitled "Balletto Trentino", an anthology of guitar and lute music from his native region, from 1500 to the present.