Samuel Diz Masterclass: Sounds of the Spanish Guitar

Join us for a masterclass workshop with concert guitarist Samuel Diz.

Samuel Diz is multiple award-winning artist who has performed across Europe, America and Africa at venues and festivals such as Fundación Juan March (Madrid), Festival de Música de Cádiz 'Manuel de Falla' and Palau de la Música Catalana (Barcelona)—where he received the 'El Primer Palau' prize, Cleveland Classical Guitar Society, Centro de las Artes de México, Harare International Festival of the Arts (Zimbabwe) and Galleria Nazionale (Rome). He lectures on the relation between the music and literature and has given lectures and concerts for The Council of Latin American and Iberian Studies, Yale University, the Department of Romance Studies at Boston University and the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford University.

In his recordings and concerts, Diz recovers the original music around the life of Federico Garcia Lorca, author of famous poems dedicated to the guitar. His album ‘Memoria de la Melancolía’ (Poliédrica 2020) was recorded in García Lorca’s bedroom at the Huerta de San Vicente Museum (Granada), on Lorca’s own guitar, an instrument built by José Ortega in Granada ca.1906.

This event is made possible through the support of the Cervantes Institute and is co-organised by the Cervantes Chair at Edinburgh University

Host or Publisher St Cecilia's Hall, The University of Edinburgh