Josuè Gutiérrez

He lives in Pordenone, where he teaches Classical Guitar and Chamber Music. For many years, he has been involved with the Segovia Guitar Academy in the diffusion of the Classical Guitar as a tool for the Artistic and Human development of children through the discovery of their own expressive dimension. Recently he has been teaching classical guitar at the secondary school specializing in music in Portogruaro Veneto. He works as a Concert performer, Teacher, Jury member and Artistic director. He has held numerous concerts, conferences, seminars and masterclasses in Mexico, Austria, Croatia, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland. In 2012 the Mexican TV show “Chiapanecos en el mundo” dedicated an episode to his artistic career.

He was a member of the Nahual Trio, founded in 2002, with which he has soustained an intense concert activity in Mexico and Europe. Among the numerous awards obtained by the trio stand out the 12 first prizes won in important national and international chamber competitions, the Medal of the President of the Senate of the Italian Republic, awarded by the International Chamber Music Competition “Gaetano Zinetti” of Verona and the Diploma of Merit of the Chigiana Academy of Siena conferred by Oscar Ghiglia to the Best Student of the course.

The Italian composer Marco De Biasi has dedicated many chamber and solo works to this formation and its members, including his Concert for Three Guitars and Orchestra, which premiered in 2008.

The CD “Trio Nahual”, released in 2010, obtained great success with the critics and public support. The musicologist Ermanno Brignolo, in a review published by the Italian magazine “SeiCorde”, wrote:

“… The three guitarists know, like few others in history, to create a true trio, combining their strong personalities in an ensemble compact, homogeneous, giving the impression that the sound is coming from a single instrument.”

Josué Gutiérrez was born in 1978 in Mexico. After starting the study of the guitar in his country, he moved to Italy in order to continue his musical training with Paolo Pegoraro and Stefano Viola at the “Francisco Tárrega” Academy in Pordenone and the Conservatories of Castelfranco Veneto and Udine.

He obtained a Diploma in Guitar with maximum marks and a Specialist Degree with maximum marks and highest honors. His thesis “Johann Sebastian Bach: Ciaccona” was published by the musicological magazine “Il Fronimo” of Milan and by Farandola Editrice di Pordenone.

Among the several masterclasses he attended during his training, those held by Stefano Grondona, Pavel Steidl and Oscar Ghiglia stand out.

He also attended Early Music Seminars held by harpsichordists Ilario Gregoletto, Robert Hill and Richard Lluby, and studied Viola da gamba with Daniele Cernutto. In addition to this, he specialized with Alessandra Costaperaria in Pedagogy and Music Teaching.

Apart from his great love of music, his interests range in fields such as reading, photography, writing, drawing and Buddhism.

He plays a guitar made by luthiers Mirko Migliorini and Marco Bortolozzo