Alirio Díaz
b1923
Alirio Díaz, splendid example of natural talent, was born at Caserio la Candelara, a small venezuelan village near to Carora, on the 12th of November in 1923, in a family of modest origins, eighth of eleven brothers. Since a child he proves a great interest for music with different instruments, but choosing guitar as his expressive way.
Pupil of the founder of the venezuelan guitaristic school, Raul Borges, at Conservatorio in Caracas, where he takes his first concert in 1950, Daiz ends his preparation at Conservatorio in Madrid with Regino Sainz de la Maza. Just an year of frequency (1958) is enough to obtain the first prize.
From Spain he reaches Italy where the M.o Andrèas Segovia has a class nearby to the accademy Chigiana of Siena: Diaz will become his first assistance and substitute until 1964. From that year, his name and his fame spread everywhere in the world.
His brillant concertistic carrier begins in those years. With the M.o Segovia's teachings, with the contacts with other important author, as Villa-Lobos, Lauro and others, with his virtuousity combined to a strong artistic sensibility, Alirio Diaz becomes one of the most famous guitar perfomers in the twentieth century. He has concerts in many european nations, in Japan, in the Unitd States, in Australia and he becomes citizen of the world.
Tireless divulger oflatin-american musical patrimony (Barrios, Lauro, Mangorè, Sojo, Cordero, Carreño and others), he checks and several musics by baroque authors as Scarlatti, Corbetta and V. Galilei, harmonizes popular south-american and napoletan songs giving them a new instrumental and interpretative dress and he records about thirty disks.
Guest of honour in the greatest guitaristic shows, he partecipates in the Concorso Internazionale di Chitarra Classica di Alessandria since its first edition in 1968, conferring to it prestige and a big emphasis in the giutaristic world's panorama.
For his artistic merits and for his human qualities he receives the freedom of Alessandria, great international recognitions and public assignments as cultural counseller at Foreign Office of Venezuela.
midi: classical guitar song "Diablo Suelto" - written by
Heraclio Fernandez - MIDI by Carlos Cordero
