At 16, he performed for the first time in Los Angeles, playing flamenco with his father and brothers Celin and Angel. In 1959, Pepe made his first recording, featuring traditional flamenco music of his native Andalucia. Romero published a guitar method, La Guitarra, in 2012. Romero served as guitar professor at the University of Southern California, Southern Methodist University, University of San Diego and University of California at San Diego, before taking up the post of adjunct professor at USC Thornton School of Music. In 1957 Celedonio Romero left Franco's Spain for the United States with his singer actress wife, Angelita, and his three sons, Celin, Pepe and Angel, settling in the San Diego area. His first professional appearance was in a shared concert with his father at the Teatro Lope de Vega, Seville, when Pepe was only seven years old, playing a gavotte by Bach and Sevilla by Albéniz.
Pepe Romero was born in Spain, the second son of celebrated guitarist and composer Celedonio Romero, who was his only guitar teacher. Join me for Fretworks for music of the classical guitar Saturday and Wednesday evenings at 7 on Classical 101.Pepe Romero (born March 8, 1944, in Málaga, Spain) is a classical and flamenco guitarist. El Delirio is a serious 10 minute fantasy-sonata that makes quite an impression as performed by Spanish guitarist Maria Esther Guzman in this recording from 1994.Īlso on the program, guitarist Gregg Nestor will play 3 Film Waltzes by Milos Rozsa, the Hollywood film composer. Less often heard is El Delirio by the 19th century Spanish guitarist and composer Julian Arcas, who influenced Francisco Tarrega and the guitar maker Antonio de Torres. The celebrated Hungarian guitar duo, the Katona Twins have the Tango Suite by Argentinean composer Astor Piazzolla. The theme comes from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. We'll hear American guitarist Eliot Fisk play Variations on a Theme of Mozart by the great early 19th century guitarist/composer Fernando Sor. The Concerto for 4 Guitars in B minor (originally for the lute) was recorded in San Antonio, Texas in 1967 with the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra. A Vintage recording of a concerto by Antonio Vivaldi from the "Royal Family of the Guitar," Los Romeros is featured this week on Fretworks.
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