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Flamenco: A Personal Journey part 1 of 10

Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975) is an Italian-American documentary film maker, photographer, and flamenco guitarist. He is the son of Italian actor and aristocrat Prince Dado Ruspoli and American actress Debra Berger.Tao was born in Thailand and raised in Rome and Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy.

His most well-known piece is the documentary Just Say Know, a personal discussion of his family's drug addiction.His other films include Flamenco: A Personal Journey, a feature length documentary about the flamenco way of life as it is lived by Gypsies in the south of Spain.

He has directed a number of other short documentaries, including El Cable (also about flamenco), and This Film Needs No Title (a portrait of the renowned logician, mathematician and concert pianist Raymond Smullyan)Tao is the founder of LAFCO, The Los Angeles Filmmakers Cooperative, a bohemian collective of filmmakers and musicians who work out of a converted school bus. Through LAFCO,

Tao has produced several films and helped dozens of filmmakers to make their first films and discover the wonders of digital media.

His producing credits include the feature film Camjackers, which he also acted in and co-edited. Camjackers won the best editing award at the 44th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Tao is also involved with Lost Film Fest and collaborates with Scott BeibinTao is an accomplished flamenco guitar player, and his first CD, Flamenco, was released on Mapleshade Records in 2005.He is married to actress Olivia Wilde.
http://www.lafco.tv/

flamenco guitar, tarantas improvisationcastello ruspoli, august 2008

Concierto de Eduardo Isaac en Coria

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Festival Internacional de Guitarra Ciudad de Coria del 4 al 11 de agosto.
Actividad de hoy, Miércoles, 6 de Agosto ,Entrada Gratuita.

Luego de la actuación del guitarrista Roberto Ausse, el Festival Internacional de Guitarra Ciudad de Coria recibirá esta noche la presentación de Eduardo Isaac, ganador de concursos internacionales en Brasil, España y Bélgica.
Nacido en Argentino igual que Ausse, Eduardo Isaac llega desde su pueblo natal Paraná, en la provincia argentina de Entre Ríos, para deleitar al público con su música en un rexital que se realizará a las 21.30 en la Catedral de Coria.
in Extremadura.com
Eduardo Isaac plays Paisaje cubano con campanas

II encontros internacionais

El arte de vivir el Flamenco - MERENGUE DE CÓRDOBA

RAFAEL RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ, guitarrista payo, más conocido en el mundo de la guitarra con el nombre artístico de MERENGUE DE CÓRDOBA, nació en Córdoba en la famosa taberna "La Flor de mi Viña", del barrio de Santiago el 29 de agosto del año de 1944, aunque se crió en el barrio de la Judería desde la edad de 1 año. Cursó estudios en la Universidad Laboral de Córdoba. Hijo del guitarrista Merengue de Córdoba, comenzó en 1960 su carrera artística en el tablao flamenco Zoco de Córdoba, regentado entonces por Antonio Romero.

Su técnica la adquirió a través de las enseñanzas de tan importantes profesores de la época como Antonio el del Lunar, Arango, Fernando Ortiz, y de importantes tocaores como Ramón Montoya, Niño Ricardo, Sabicas, Juan Serrano, entre otros....

Norman Ruiz

Guitarist Norman Ruiz is a frequent performer in the Mid-Western United States.
In 1997 he performed Luciano Berio's Sequenza for Guitar with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in an all-Berio program at Northwestern University's Pick Staiger Concert Hall. He also performed Schoenberg's Serenade with the Guidagnini Ensemble, made up of members of the CSO, at Orchestra Hall in 1992, and in 1993 he performed the Canario movement of Rodrigo's Fantasia Para un Gentilhombre with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as part of their Promenade Concert Series.
He has also performed with community orchestras, including the Illinois Philharmonic, directed by Carmen DeLeone and the Elmhurst Symphony conducted by Dale Cleavenger.
As a soloist he has performed nationally and internationally.
In 1985 he performed in London's famed Wigmore Hall. In 1984 he presented a program for the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert series at Preston Bradley Hall in Chicago in a program broadcast nationwide over WFMT radio. In 1988 he was included on the "Masters of the Guitar" series presented by the Chicago Guitar Society. In 1992 he was selected to perform in the Gran Teatro in Cordoba, Spain during the international guitar festival. More recently, he was artist-in-residence at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, performing a solo recital and serving as resident instructor, then he went on to perform on guitar series in Paracho and Morelia, Mexico.
Norman Ruiz has had instruction with some of the world's finest guitarists. In 1992 he studied the guitar concertos of Joaquin Rodrigo with Christopher Parkening.

He has studied with Pepe Romero at the Festival de La Guitarra in Cordoba, Spain in 1992 and 1996.

He has also had master classes with Oscar Ghiglia and Manuel Lopez Ramos. In 1986 he was selected from an international search to participate in a master class given by Andres Segovia at the University of Southern California.
Norman Ruiz's desire is to introduce the classical guitar to new audiences. This desire has led him to perform at many of the schools and libraries in and around Chicago. He has also given lectures on the guitar, and given master classes at many universities in the Mid-west.
In 1997 his CD, Andaluza, was released by Centaur records and is available at Tower Records and Border Books. He teaches at Columbia College in Chicago and at Trinity International University in Deerfield.