Award Ceremony for the Cultural Prize of the City of Kassel 2024

Argentine guitarist and composer Alfredo Juan Falú, born 1948, is active in the field of Latin American folklore and classical music. Falú studied guitar and folklore at Conservatorio Manuel de Falla in Buenos Aires. After the military dictatorship, which he  spent in exile, he returned to Argentina and became a professor of folklore at the Buenos Aires Conservatory, organizing numerous festivals over the years. For his work  he was awarded by the Fondo Nacional de las Artes . Falú has performed as a soloist in more than twenty countries in Europe, Asia and America. In addition to recordings with other musicians, he has released over thirty solo albums. In 2000 he received the First National Prize for Music from Argentina.*

The concert series "GUITARRA LATINA 2023" in Kassel gives the world of South American guitar music a stage. This year, several internationally renowned guitarists from South America, who are very close to me, finally find…