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Brazilian Treasures: First DMA Guitar Recital
April 25th, 24, 3:30 pm, I will be performing my first DMA Guitar Recital at the University of Georgia. Works by Cesar Guerra-Peixe, Joel Hobbs, Walter Burle-Marx, and Radames Gnatalli (featuring Natalie Smith, flute). If you are around, come for an evening of rarely...
Brazilian Treasures Live
A few days ago I've performed in Turlock, California, my recital with Brazilian works for guitar by Villa-Lobos, Guerra-Peixe, Burle-Marx and Reis. This is an opportunity to listen to established composers, as well as masterpieces still very rarely performed. Watch...
February, a month full of achievements
I'd like to share some recent achievements. In February 2024, I had good results in several international guitar competitions. Buffalo Guitar Showcase Competition: I received an Honorable Mention. Troy University Guitar Competition: 3rd prize. Queens University Guitar...
2nd prize at a Guitar Competition in the USA
I recently took part in the 2023 Louisville Guitar Competition, held in Louisville, Kentucky, and had the honor of winning second prize in the Open Division. The 2023 Louisville Guitar Competition Open Division brought together guitarists to the Midwest, and this is...
New Dilermando Reis’ album
On Friday, October 27, the album "Alvaro Henrique plays Dilermando Reis" will be available on the main streaming platforms. This release features several unpublished compositions, providing an innovative perspective on the renowned Brazilian guitarist-composer.The...
Dilermando Reis by Alvaro Henrique
We have some news to share with you! I'm about to release a new album full of songs composed by Dilermando Reis. Some of them are not yet available on streaming platforms (Spotify, for example). We're inviting you to pre-save this album. By pre-saving, you'll be one...
Aquarela for solo guitar
During the recording of my next CD, with compositions by Dilermando Reis, the recording sessions were productive, and we managed to record a song in the extra available time. It is a simple arrangement of Aquarela, by Toquinho. During the pandemic, we all rethought...
A Villa-Lobos like you’ve never heard before
The acclaimed Brazilian guitarist Alvaro Henrique has just released his latest album entitled "Villa-Lobos' Guitar: volume 1". With the participation of the Cláudio Santoro National Theater Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Cláudio Cohen, the album also features...
Guerra-Peixe at the Grammy Latino
"O Violao de Guerra-Peixe" is one of the Grammy Latino 2023 candidates. The pre-selection is now taking place. There will be three selecting processes to reach the nominees, and the amount of plays is one of the criteria. Listen to the world premiere recording of the...
Video: Live concert with Villa-Lobos, Guerra-Peixe, Baden Powell
Past saturday, July 9th, 2022, Alvaro Henrique made a concert celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Brazilian Modernism movement, which had Heitor Villa-Lobos as the main leader in music, organized by Fundacao Astrojildo Pereira and artistic direction by Augusto...
While Guerra-Peixe guitar works isn’t there yet…
You must be knowing that we are about to premiere the first world record of Guerra-Peixe's guitar works on July 1st, and you pre-saving it at https://tratore.ffm.to/oviolaodeguerrapeixe helps showing it to more people on the streaming platforms (Spotify, Deezer,...
NEW Free Intermediate Classical Guitar Course
During the pandemics everyone had to reinvent ourselves. One of the things I had to do is to prepare video lessons for the classical guitar course I teach at the Escola de Musica de Brasilia. I’ve decided to make them also in English and share worldwide. The Curso...
Intermediate Course 2 – Free online classical guitar course
During the pandemics everyone had to reinvent ourselves. One of the things I had to do is to prepare video lessons for the classical guitar course I teach at the Escola de Musica de Brasilia. I’ve decided to make them also in English and share worldwide. The Curso...
Live Sunday
Information and ticket reservation:https://www.groupmuse.com/events/11886-alvaro-henrique-performs-brazilian-guitar-music-with-a-touch-of-spain WE ARE very satisfied with the evolution and great acceptance of our"RC Strings Artist Concert...
Wanda Vision in arrangments for solo classical guitar
I've made arrangments for solo classical Guitar of #wandavision themes. At the link below you may pre-save them. They will be released on October 1st. WandaVision was Very important for me. Like many, It hit me in a time which the world changed in a snap of a finger...
Alvaro Henrique at the Festival Entrecuerdas
Festival Entrecuerdas, one of the main guitar festivals in Chile, takes place this year in virtual format. I perform a recital of Brazilian Music (link Valdivia). Other performers include Thibault Calvin. Watch at https://mynotauro.wixsite.com/entrecuerdas2021...
Aestechnique = Musicality + technique together
My book Aestechnique is now published in English. This is a collection of exercises that combine musical and mechanism challenges; therefore, you develop not only better fingers, but also better musical abilities that are required when playing a composition (such as...
Intermediate Course 1 – Free online classical guitar course
During the pandemics everyone had to reinvent ourselves. One of the things I had to do is to prepare video lessons for the classical guitar course I teach at the Escola de Musica de Brasilia. I've decided to make them also in English and share worldwide. The Curso...
Guerra-Peixe’s works for guitar (with subtitles for listeners and lessons for guitarists)
I started a project to raise the spotlight on a very important yet neglected Brazilian composer, Cesar Guerra-Peixe. He is a unique case of a composer who is considered a key figure in two RIVAL musical movement in Brazil, the Musica Viva, focused on avant-gard music,...
Competing and improving
Last week I wrote in this blog about the cancelation of a traditional guitar competition due to the Covid-19 restrictions making it impossible to organize an international competition (https://alvarohenrique.com/en/from-cancelations-to-smiles/) This week I'm...
