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An extensive concert career which began when Oscar Herrero was very young is testimony to his abilities as a composer and concert performer.
He continued to advance his solo career, winning the first prizes awarded at the highest level in the world of flamenco; the Bordón Minero (Festival de La Union) and the National Flamenco Guitar Prize in Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz.
He is the author of a complete teaching method, an area in which he is an absolute pioneer following an outstanding investigation into the pedagogy of the flamenco guitar. In his ample compositional repertoire one can find contrasting study and concert works: “La Guitarra Flamenca Paso a Paso„ (series of video) and “Tratado de la Guitarra Flamenca„ (in collaboration with Claude Worms).
He enjoys the enormous privilege of having been the first flamenco to teach in such places as Russia (Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow), Poland (Chopin Academy, Warsaw), and The University of Panama. He was also the first flamenco to give concerts in Iceland.
He has taken his guitar to the most prestigious theatres, from the Opera of Cairo in Egypt, Madrid's Royal Theatre and the Hermitage Theatre of Saint Petersburg to Sydney, Beirut, Buenos Aires and Helsinki. He has also performed in the U.S.A, Brazil, Jordania, Germany and Chile among other countries.
Discography: - “Torrente„ (in collaboration with Carmen Linares, Serranito, Sara Baras and Javier Barón)
- “Brindis de Guitarras„ (Celebration of Guitars with the classical guitarist Carlos Oramas)
- “Hechizo„ (with Tino de Geraldo, Xosé Manuel Budiño, and Guillermo McGill)
- “Abantos„ (with Enrique Morente, Antonio Serrano and Serguey Sapricheff)
Oscar Herrero has a unique vision of flamenco music, taking care of each note and using his guitar to subtly express this art.
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