What's On / Juan Martin
Juan Martin
4 November 2010 at 8:00pmat The Queen's Hall
Voted into the top three guitarists in the world by Guitar Player magazine, Juan Martín is a celebrated virtuoso of the flamenco guitar. At the age of 17, he played in the Spanish film Donde tu estes and since then his remarkable career has seen him honoured to play for Picasso’s 90th birthday celebrations, invited by his biographer Sir Roland Penrose and his wife Lee Miller. He has performed at international festivals from Montreux to Hong Kong including the First World Guitar Congress in the USA and playing in Tehran in 2004 to 9000 people over three nights.
"A giant of the flamenco guitar tradition" (The Times)
"No flash, just loads of panache" (The Age)
“Flamenco show blows the roof off the Barbican” (Songlines)
Website www.flamencovision.com
