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Ernesto Tamayo was the first prize winner of the 1995 NGWS in New Milford

New Milford

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, Connecticut

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. He has toured extensively throughout North and South America and Europe.

Biography

Born in Havana

Havana

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, Cuba

Cuba

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, Tamayo began studying the guitar with his father when he was five. He made his television debut at the young age of nine.

In 1995, Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Music Entertainment

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and Sony Classical of Mexico

Mexico

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enabled Tamayo to come to the United States. He received a full scholarship for advanced studies at The Peabody Conservatory with world renowned guitarist Manuel Barrueco

Manuel Barrueco

Manuel Barrueco is a Cuban virtuoso classical guitarist. He was born in 1952 in Santiago de Cuba, on Cuba's southeastern shore. He has toured in the U.S., Europe and Japan, and serves on the faculty of Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland.-Biography:...

. In Cuba, Tamayo studied with world renowned composer and guitarist Leo Brouwer

Leo Brouwer

Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida is a Cuban composer, conductor and guitarist. He is the grandson of Cuban composer Ernestina Lecuona Casado.-Biography:...

and with Antonio Alberto Rodriguez.

Since his arrival in the United States, Tamayo has performed in numerous concert series and with orchestras in the United States and abroad. In September 1999, he made his Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

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debut with a sold-out performance. Past engagements at guitar festivals include appearances at the Fourth International Guitar Festival in Cuernavaca

Cuernavaca

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, Mexico, the Sixth International Guitar Festival in Long Island

Long Island

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, New York

New York

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, the "Classical Guitarists of the World" concert series in Fullerton

Fullerton

-Locations:Australia* Fullerton Cove, New South WalesCanada* Cape Fullerton, NunavutUnited States* Fullerton, California, a city in Orange County...

, California

California

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and the Connecticut Guitar Summer Workshop. He has also given solo recitals at the Kennedy Center as well as for the classical guitar societies of Baltimore

Baltimore

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, Miami, Reno

Reno

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, Cheyenne

Cheyenne

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and Northern Colorado

Northern Colorado

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, among others.

The Cuban Guitarist album features two world premier recordings, The Havana Suite by Cuban guitarist and composer Aldo Rodriguez

Aldo Rodriguez

Aldo Rodriguez is a Cuban rapper and member of the group Los Aldeanos. They are one of the most influential underground rap groups in Cuba. Rodriguez' lyrics deal with social injustices, poverty, prostitution, racism, and police brutality....

, and Five Inspirations composed by Tamayo himself. The Classical Persuasions album was released in September 2006. On it, Tamayo features works by Borges, Canonigos, Lauro

Antonio Lauro

Antonio Lauro was a Venezuelan musician, considered to be one of the foremost South American composers for the Guitar in the 20th century.- Biography :Antonio Lauro was born in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela...

, Weiss

Sylvius Leopold Weiss

Silvius Leopold Weiss was a German composer and lutenist.Born in Grottkau near Breslau, the son of Johann Jacob Weiss, also a lutenist, he served at courts in Breslau, Rome, and Dresden, where he died...

, Sor

Fernando Sor

Josep Ferran Sorts i Muntades was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer. While he is best known for his guitar compositions, he also composed music for a wide range of genres, including opera, orchestra, string quartet, piano, voice and ballet...

, Brouwer, Albeniz

Isaac Albéniz

Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms .-Life:Born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz and his wife Dolors Pascual, Albéniz...

, Rodrigo

Joaquín Rodrigo

Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez , commonly known as Joaquín Rodrigo, was a composer of classical music and a virtuoso pianist. Despite being nearly blind from an early age, he achieved great success...

, and Tarrega

Francisco Tárrega

Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea was an influential Spanish composer and guitarist of the Romantic period.-Biography:Tárrega was born on 21 November 1852, in Vila-real, Castelló, Spain...

. Artistico was released on December 2, 2007.

Tamayo is a recipient of career development grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, the New York Foundation for the Arts

New York Foundation for the Arts

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, and the Bossak/Heilbron Foundation. He has being sponsored in the past by The Bacardi

Bacardi

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Foundation, Del Mar Foundation, La Bella Strings and performs and records with Thomas Humphrey

Thomas Humphrey

Thomas Humphrey was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Surrey between 1862 and 1874. He was a right-hand batsman and a round arm right-armed slow bowler, and featured as an all-rounder for Surrey with four centuries and 116 wickets...

, David Daily, and Stephan Connor guitars.

In 1997 Tamayo was appointed Chairman of the guitar department at The Pennsylvania Academy of Music

Pennsylvania Academy of Music

The Pennsylvania Academy of Music was a private music school located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The Academy provided music instruction to students with skill levels ranging from elementary to advanced.-History:...

in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Lancaster is a city in the south-central part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the county seat of Lancaster County and one of the older inland cities in the United States, . With a population of 59,322, it ranks eighth in population among Pennsylvania's cities...

. His students have been accepted into music schools such as the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore

Baltimore

, Maryland

Maryland

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, and Indiana University

Indiana University

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in Bloomington

Bloomington, Indiana

Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 80,405 at the 2010 census....

, Indiana

Indiana

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. Tamayo is currently the Artistic Director of the Academy Guitar Festival in Lancaster, PA.

Recordings

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