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Edoardo Catemario is an Italian classical guitarist born 25 September 1965 in Naples, who began studying music at age five and gave his first solo recital at eleven. He studied with Salvatore Canino, Antimo Pedata, José Tomás, Stefano Aruta, and Maria Luisa Anido, as well as piano and analysis with Titina De Fazio and composers Leo Brouwer and Oscar Casares.
He won first prize at the Andrés Segovia Competition in Almuñécar in 1991 and at the Alessandria International Competition in 1992, and has recorded for Decca, ARTS Music, and Koch Schwann; his repertoire spans historical-instrument performances of Romantic music alongside Baroque, 20th-century, and contemporary works, and includes 42 concertos for guitar and orchestra. He has taught at the Accademia Musicale di Firenze since 2006 and devised the “Metodo Catemario” ear-training method for guitarists and pianists.
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