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ERNESTO BITETTI
Classical Guitar, Solo and Chamber Music
Ernesto Bitetti was born in Rosario, Argentina, and has lived in Madrid since 1968. His performances extend to the five continents, playing in such famous halls as the Bolshoi (St. Petersburg, Russia), Metropolitan Festival (Tokyo), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Lincoln Center (New York), Pleyel (Paris), Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), Musikverein (Vienna), Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), Town Hall (Sydney), Teatro Real (Madrid), City Hall (Manila), Opera (Rome), Tchaikowsky (Moscow), Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Gulbenkian (Lisbon), Herkulesaal (Munich) and many others.
Mr. Bitetti has performed as an invited artist with the most prestigious chamber orchestras, such as the English Chamber, Prague Chamber, Zagreb Soloists, Munich Chamber, I Solisti Italiani, I Solisti Aquilani, Camerata Bern, Northern Sinfonia and Israel Chamber, as well as with symphony orchestras in London, Munich, Liverpool, The Hague, Jerusalem, Osaka, Sydney, Netherlands, St. Louis, Hamburg, Suisse Romande, BBC, Stuttgart, Peru, Chile, Bogota, Manila, Buenos Aires, and the premier Spanish orchestras.
Composers of the stature of Rodrigo, Torroba, Tedesco, Duarte, Abril, Gilardino, Piazzolla, de los Rios and Marco have written and dedicated pieces or conciertos for Ernesto Bitetti.
His numerous recordings on such labels as Hispavox, EMI, VOX, ERATO and Deutsche Grammophon are distributed all over the world, receiving the Records National Prize in Spain (1979, 1985). In 1983 his TV program "Bitetti from the Aranjuez Palace" won the International Television Prize in Prague. In 1986 he recorded his first CD for EMI International with the London Philharmonia Orchestra (Rodrigo: Aranjuez, Fantasia for a Gentleman).
In 1989 Mr. Bitetti founded and now serves as the Chairman of the Guitar Program at Indiana University's prestigious Jacobs School of Music.
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