JOSEP MANZANO - BIOGRAPHY                            

Been born in Girona in 1962, one begins in the guitar of self-taught form and with Lluis Neras it studies classic and modern guitar. Later it studies with Manuel Gonzalez in Barcelona and obtains title professional in the Conservatory of Music Isaac Albeniz in Girona with the highest qualifications and the superior studies in the Liceo Superior Conservatory of Music of Barcelona. Parallelly it has attended diverse courses of musical interpretation, emphasizing the one of David Russell. It has made numerous concerts and hearing in the radio as soloist as forming part of formation of camera music or more numerous instrumental sets. Between the formation in which there is taken part it began with electric guitar in 1993 forming duo with Santi Llopis (acoustic guitar rhythm) with a repertoire formed by own compositions and versions of Clapton, Springsteen, among others. In 1997 it begins to make concerts of classic guitar like soloist, and forming duos with Anna Lopez, flute (1998), Quim Solá and Beatriu Roca (1999-2002) and from the 2000 regularly play with the guitarist of flamenco Xavier Ballesteros, with whom has published a CD with works of Albeniz, Granados and De Falla. From 1998 it is member of the group Dinosaurios poetic-musical comedy, from which the musical group Debarenbar has arisen, offering a varied repertoire very that goes from the jazz to the blues and the rock, also of original compositions. With all these formation it has play mainly in Girona (Audience of the Mercé, Museu d'Art, Viader Audience, Audience Narcis de Carreras, Room the Planet) and province (Llagostera, l'Estartit, L'Escala, Celrá, Medinya, Festival of Music of l'Albera...) but also in the rest of Catalonia (Cycle "Nits Musicals Castell Santa Oliva", Festival of "Trovadors i Juglars" in Granollers, Theater Ateneu de Cerdanyola...). Outside Catalonia has play in Mallorca, Hondarribia Int.Guitar Festival, Int.Encounter of Vilches,Nuits Musicales of Cieux (France), International Guitar Festival of Pieterlen (Swiss), in the Savacium Classic Fest of Sabac (Serbia-Montenegro) and in the International Guitar Festival of Morelia (Mexico). Also played in Bulgary with the flutist Nicolay Yordanov.

Since soloist has published the CD "Tarrega i el seu llegat" with works of Francisco Tarrega, Emilio Pujol and Miguel Llobet.

 He is professor of guitar in the Girones School of Music and the Academy of Music Compte in Girona, where it develops an ample educational task, also to be invited like professor in the Internacional Guitar Festival of Aranda de Duero (Burgos-Spain).