16TH BALATONFÜRED INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL 23 – 26 June 2022

Guitarist and teacher Edoardo Catemario was born in Naples.  He began his musical studies at the age of 5 and gave his first solo recital at the age of 11.

He is an extremely versatile guitarist with a large repertoire, ranging from romantic music (played on original instruments) to baroque, from the 20th century to contemporary and avant-garde music.

Catemario has performed in Vienna (Wiener Musikverein Grosser Saal), Berlin (Filharmonie Grosser Saal), Madrid (Auditorio Nacional and Teatro Real), London (Wigmore Hall and St John’s Smith Square), New York (Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall), Melbourne (Sidney Meir Bowl and Town Hall), St. St Petersburg (Bolshoi Hall of the Philharmonic), Moscow (Tchaikovsky Auditorium), Paris (Cité de la musique) Buenos Aires (Colise Theater) Hamburg (MusikHalle) Valencia (the auditorium of the Conservatory), to name but a few. He has appeared in numerous television and radio programmes on the main European national television channels, such as TV2000, TVE2 (Spain), RTF3 (France), RAI1 and RAI3 (Italy).

He has presented several works dedicated to him: “Cuadernos de Danzas” by “Memoirs of a mask” and “Alone” by Patrizio Marrone, and “Alone” by Gerard Drozd: “Carpe Diem”, “Concierto de la buena Lluvia” by Juan Jose Barron, “Concierto de la buena Lluvia” by Daniel Doura: “Sinfonia Argentina” and “I racconti di Mamma Orca” by Roberto De Simone.

Edoardo has recorded for DECCA Records, ARTS Music and Koch Schwann. His recordings have won numerous critics’ awards, including “Five Stars of Music” (Italy), “Classical CD of the Month” (Italy), Guitart Editor’s Choice (Italy), “Joker of Crescendo” (Belgium), among others. In January 2004, his recording Giuliani: Concerto n1 was featured in BBC Music Magazine.

Edoardo is also an acclaimed teacher. He has given master classes in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Austria. From 2001 to 2007 he was professor at the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg and guest artist at the Royal Academy in London, where he is regularly invited. In 2018, he was awarded an “Honorary Membership” by the Royal Academy of London. Edoardo Catemario developed the method of teaching musical aural training for guitarists and pianists that bears his name (Metodo Catemario) and since then the first “Catemario Academies” have been established where his method is taught.

Catemario plays on the high quality instruments of the great masters of the Spanish school of instrument making, Garcia and Simplicio. He is also supported by Walter Franchi (who invented regenerative restoration) and master instrument maker Paulino Bernabe. Since 1992 he has been using the strings of RC Classics, of which he is a proud patron.