David Russell (born June 1, 1953, in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish-Spanish classical guitarist. When he was five, his family moved from Glasgow to Menorca, where he became interested in the guitar, drawing inspiration from Andrés Segovia and Julian Bream. He studied under Hector Quine at the Royal Academy of Music, winning the Julian Bream Guitar Prize twice, and graduated in 1974 with a scholarship from the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust. He now lives in Galicia, Spain, while touring internationally.

Russell has won numerous international competitions, including the Andrés Segovia Competition, the José Ramírez Competition, and Spain’s Francisco Tárrega Competition. His album “Aire Latino: Latin American Music for Guitar” won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance. In 1997 he was named a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London, and he is regarded as one of the leading classical guitarists of his generation.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Russell_(guitarist)