CRISTIAN GUTIÉRREZ

Cristian was born in Santiago , Chile . He studied classical guitar with the maestro Ernesto Quezada, in the Conservatory of Music of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile , finishing with the highest distinction awarded in this area. In 1999 he was the only one recipient of the prize that the "Municipal Theather of Chile" awards to young national talents. In Chile, he began studying lute, vihuela, and baroque guitar, and was later awarded a scholarship from the "Andes Foundation" to travel to Spain for advanced studies in "Plucked String Instruments of the Renaissance and Baroque" at the Superior Conservatory of Seville with Juan Carlos Rivera, and "Improvisation and Continuo" at the Isaac Albéniz Conservatory of Gerona with Xavier Díaz-Latorre.

Cristian has made numerous recordings including award winning "A tocar, a cantar, a baylar" based on the anthology of colonial music by the noted musicologist Samuel Claro. For several years he has done outstanding work as soloist and member of diverse groupings, most notably the “Baroque Orchestra of Seville” and “ La Bella Tiranna ” and performed with such out-standing personalities as Monica Huggett, Ventura Rico, Pedro Estevan etc. He has performed in Chile, Argentina , Bolivia, Spain , Uruguay, the United States, the Netherlands, France and Portugal .