Manuel Barrueco is a Cuban classical guitarist. During three decades of concertizing, he has performed across the United Sates from the New World Symphony in Miami to the Seattle Symphony, and from the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic to New York?s Lincoln Center. At the age of 22, he became the first classical guitarist to receive the Concert Artists Guild Award in 1974. His first recordings aroused excitement about his skills and musical interpretation. Ever since, Barrueco has toured extensively, appearing in some of the world's most important musical centers, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Munich, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Rome, Copenhagen, Athens, South Korea, Taipei, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan. Barrueco has made well over a dozen recordings for EMI. This included the 2006 album, �Cuba!, was called "an extraordinary musical achievement" by the San Francisco Chronicle, while his recording of Joaqu�n Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez with conductor/tenor Pl�cido Domingo and the Philharmonia Orchestra, was mentioned as the best recording of that piece in Classic CD Magazine. 

December 16th, 1952 in Santiago de Cuba (Age 71)