Alirio Díaz

Alirio Díaz ( born November 12, 1923 in Caserio La Candelaria / Lara ) is a Venezuelan classical guitarist.

Díaz studied at the Escuela Superior de Música José Angel Lamas guitar with Raúl Borges and harmony and music history at Vicente Emilio Sojo. In 1950, he debuted in Caracas with a concert featuring works by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Johann Sebastian Bach and Manuel María Ponce. With a scholarship from the Venezuelan government, he continued his education at the Conservatorio de Madrid continues at Regino Sainz de la Maza.

After Díaz worked as an assistant of Andrés Segovia at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. In 1964 he settled in Rome down from where he performed as a guitarist in the whole of Europe, the USA, Japan, Australia and his native Venezuela with a repertoire that works by Scarlatti, Corbetta and Vincenzo Galilei also included as adaptations of Latin American and Neapolitan folk songs and works by contemporary Venezuelan composers. He has given master classes and took on more than thirty albums.

He has published two autobiographical books and was co-founder of the publishing house Caroni Music, which is dedicated to the publication of Latin American music.