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Born in Riobamba, in the Andes cordillera, Ecuador, Cristóbal Pazmiño spent his childhood influenced by Andean music, inspired by the Indian and Creole melodies that populate all the aspects of everyday life.
An immensely gifted guitarist and composer, Cristobal Pazmiño is a fixture of the international stage, having performed in 32 countries. Since settling down in Vendôme in 1994, he developed a highly intense activity centred on his guitar. He has given no less than 90 concerts in all of central France, as a soloist, in a duo or with bands.
Cristobal Pazmiño's music was featured in television documentaries (“La Terre et l'Or des Incas„, France3, 1991; “Panama, Prince des Chapeaux„, ARTE/la 5, 1997). Various cable channels also resorted to his music for their documentaries on Chile. In Ecuador, Teleamazonas, the channel of the capital Quito, broadcasted his music during an entire season of the programme “En Familia„ (credits).
He is the founder and the artistic director of the Festival International de guitares de la ville de Vendôme, which has become one of the greatest events of its kind in France.
His rich discography features, amongst many others, “Quito de mis ensueños„ and “Guitarra de alas„ with Floriane Charles.
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Floriane Charles was born in Vendôme, France, in 1986. A precocious and highly talented musician, she started playing the guitar before the age of six. She rapidly displayed equal ease in the fields of academic music and her own arrangements.
An eclectic at heart, she avidly explores all styles, from picking to jazz - and it is a rare pleasure indeed to hear a French guitarist interpret Latin American rhythms in the style of the continent's musicians, where the guitar reigns supreme.
Floriane has performed on stage since five years, with a predilection for South American melodies and dances, and at Cristobal Pazmiño's side she offers an agile rendition of a music that is both sparkling and sensitive.
Regarding the “Guitarra de alas„
With Cristóbal Pazmiño and Floriane Charles, we embark on a long journey that takes us all the way to Latin America - and, with humour and discretion, further still, to the bottom of their heart and to the tips of their fingers.
Listening to them play, one forgets the extreme technical complexity of their pieces and their musical virtuosity, which are outshone by their generosity and their commitment.
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