Diego Barber is a classical and jazz guitarist. He has recorded albums for Sunnyside"Diego Barber: Sunnyside Records artist" . By Sunnyside Records and Origin Records."Diego Barber: Origin Records artists". By Origin Records
Early life Barber was born into a family of musicians."Press release about Diego Barber". By Adolfo Martin. July 19th, 2009 He studied at the Lanzarote Conservatory of Music"Interview to Diego Barber". Global Cultura. April 2nd, 2013 with Miguel Ángel Calzadilla and took private lessons with Toñin Corújo. Years later, he enrolled at the Arturo Soria Conservatory in Madrid. He met José Ramón García, who taught him harmony, analysis, and composition.
He received a degree in classical guitar from the Salamanca Higher Conservatory of Music. During his time at Salamanca, he took lessons from Costas Cotsiolis for one year in Atenas and from Ricardo Gallén."Sonata Banc d'Arguin by Diego Barber: Premiered and performed by guitarist Ricardo Gallén. Press release. March 11th, 2012
Barber attended the Mozarteum University of Salzburg where he completed his postgraduate studies with Marco Tamayo. He won first prize in the Leo Brouwer Guitar Festival and Competition in Spain in 2003, as well as the first prize in a competition organized by the Miami Classical Guitar Society."Diego Barber review by Miami classical guitar society". Admin., June 6th, 2007
Personal life Barber lives in New York City where he has recorded"Diego Barber discography". All Music web site the albums Calima,Calima album review by Mark F. Turner. All About Jazz, March 18, 2009. The Choice,The Choice album review by Carlo Wolff. JazzTimes.com, July 2011 and Tales in cooperation with Mark Turner, Jeff Ballard, Larry Grenadier, Ari Hoenig, Johannes Weidenmüller, and Seamus Blake, all recordings were released on Sunnyside Records. His duo album with pianist Craig Taborn, Tales, was mentioned in several top ten charts and Best-of-2014 lists such as iTunes (awarded with 4 stars),"iTunes: The most listened in 2014: Tales by Diego Barber" iTunes store 2015. Apple.com (registration necessary) Down Beat (4 of 5 stars),"Best Albums of 2014", Down Beat, January 2015, page 45. The New York City Jazz Record,"Albums of the Year" by David R. Adler , The New York City Jazz Record: "Best of 2014". Relative Pitch Records. December 2014 Baltimore City Paper"Blue Notes: Top 10 in Jazz and Blues" by Geoffrey Himes. Digital journal Baltimore City Paper. December 2014 and The New York Village Voice."The Village Voice's Top 10 Jazz Albums of 2014" by David R. Adler, Dec. 8 2014 The album 411, a quintet recording from 2011 co-led by Hugo Ciprés was released on Origin Records in 2013.
Discography Calima (Sunnyside, 2009) The Choice (Sunnyside, 2011) 411 (Origin, 2013) Tales (Sunnyside, 2014) One Minute Later (Sunnyside, 2017)
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