Juan Martin Flamenco - Settle Victoria Hall

A celebrated virtuoso of the flamenco guitar who has been voted into the top three guitarists in the world by US magazine 'Guitar Player', Juan Martin learned his art in the land of his origin, Malaga, Andalucia. Aged 17, he played in the Spanish film 'Donde tu estes' filmed in Malaga. He has recorded 20 albums including Musica Alhambra, The Andalucian Suites and Solo mostly as a composer as well as an album with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Serenade and 3 films with his dance company, one recorded in Istanbul and two at the Barbican in London.

His original method book 'El Arte Flamenco de la Guitarra', considered to be the 'bible' of flamenco guitar, is in its eleventh print and widely translated. His other dvds/books are distributed by Faber Music and Mel Bay and are translated into many languages including a new official Chinese version. He was invited to play concerts in Beijing and Shanghai to celebrate this new publication.

He was honoured to be asked by Sir Roland Penrose to play for Picasso's 90th birthday celebrations and has performed in international festivals from Hong Kong to Montreux Jazz with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock and at the First World Guitar Congress in the USA. His tours have taken him around the world from Australia, America and Canada to China, the Middle and Far East. The paper El Mundo in Spain said of him that 'he has a terrifyingly good technique and absolute dominance of the guitar'