This year, we are proud to present Christopher Avilez, an outstanding classical guitarist from Mexico with six published albums and an impressive international career as a concert performer.
In this recital, he will perform a remarkable repertoire using two different guitars: a classical concert guitar and a romantic guitar. His performance will include works from various periods and composers with distinct styles: Pedro Ximénez Abril y Tirado, Vicente Asencio, Alberto Ginastera, Ángel G. Piñero, and Roland Dyens.
We would like to thank all our members, collaborators, and sponsors. Your enthusiasm makes it possible for us to organize high-quality events in Badalona. Your presence and participation are the driving force behind our mission to promote the guitar and live music. We look forward to seeing you there!
- The concert will take place on Saturday, November 1st, 2025, at 8:00 PM, at the Church of the Carmelite Fathers in Badalona.
- Free concert. Open admission until full capacity is reached. Voluntary donation.
SPONSORED BY:
CHRISTOPHER AVILEZ
Christopher Avilez (México) is a classical guitarist with master's degrees in performance from the Catalonia College of Music (ESMUC), the Faculty of Music at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and the University of Alicante.
He has studied at the Gustav Mahler Conservatory in Klagenfurt, Austria, with Marco Tamayo, and at the Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, with Thomas Bittermann.
He is currently working on his doctoral thesis on the music for solo guitar by Pedro Ximénez Abril y Tirado at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Throughout his international career, he has performed in Germany, Andorra, Austria, Bolivia, Colombia, Spain, Ecuador, Slovenia, the United States, France, Italy, Mexico, and Peru, both as a soloist and with the Morelos Chamber Orchestra, the Morelos Camerata, the Mexican Symphony Orchestra of Cuenca, and the Cusco Symphony Orchestra. He has won more than twenty awards in national and international guitar competitions, as well as the State Youth Award (Mexico, 2013) in the category of Promotion of Art and Culture.
In Mexico, he has been a fellow of: the Program for the Encouragement of Artistic Creation and Development (2008 and 2018), the Performing Arts Creators Program (2011), and the Program for the Promotion of Cultural Projects and Co-investments (2019 and 2023) of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), and in Spain, the Ibermúsicas program (2023).
RECORDING PRODUCTION:
-
XIII Sonatas para guitarra y bajo contínuo - J. A. de Vargas y Guzmán.
-
Imágenes… Memoria - Música contemporánea mexicana.
-
Concerto for Classic Guitar & Jazz Piano Trio by Claude Bolling, Fisis Quartet.
-
Sudamérica Seductora, with pieces by Villa-Lobos, Ginastera, Barrios y Sinesi.
-
Al pie del Volcán, unpublished piece for guitar by P. Ximénez Abril y Tirado.
-
Third Pedro Ximénez Abril y Tirado Collection (double album).
CONCERT ORGANIZED BY:
COLLABORATING ORGANIZATIONS:
