Alexandre Lagoya

Alexandre Lagoya ( born June 29, 1929 in Alexandria, † August 24, 1999 in Paris) was a classical guitarist.

The son of a Greek father and an Italian mother from the age of eight guitar lessons, took thirteen years old the first time publicly and had played up to his eighteenth year about 500 concerts.

In 1940 he went to Siena, to study with Andres Segovia, and then moved to Paris. On one of his first concerts there, he met guitarist Ida Presti the know, who was also a student of Segovia. He married in 1953 and came with her until her untimely death in 1967 as a guitar on. They played, among others the world premieres of Mario Castelnuovo- Tedesco's Les bien guitares tempérées, Joaquin Rodrigo and André Jolivet Tonadilla Sérénade pour deux guitares.

After Prestis death, Lagoya raised five years back from the concert business, before he began his career as a guitar soloist again. Many composers have written works for him now, so Henri Sauget Trois Préludes, Jacques Charpentier the concert no 2, Jean -Michel Damase a Ballade pour guitare et cordes and Claude Bolling Concerto pour guitare be.

Besides taught Lagoya guitar at the Schola Cantorum, gave summer courses at the International Music Academy of Nice and launched in 1969 the first class for guitar at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1994 he retired from the Lehrtätigkeitr. He played numerous records as a soloist, in a duo with Ida Presti and with musicians such as flutist Jean -Pierre Rampal and Claude Bolling, a jazz pianist and performed in radio and television broadcasts.

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