Xavier Díaz-Latorre is a graduate of the Schola Cantorum in Basel, where he was a pupil of Hopkinson Smith, after studying the modern guitar with Oscar Ghiglia at the Musik-Akademie of the same city. He appears with today's foremost Baroque ensembles, including Jordi Savall's Concert des Nations, René Jacobs Concerto Vocale, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and Concerto Köln. He brings to the world of the Baroque guitar not only his scholarly training at Basel, but also the Spanish roots that lie at the very basis of the instrument. He offers us an Iberian manifesto, with pieces taken from the Instrucción de música para la guitarra (Instruction in the music of the Spanish guitar) of Gaspar Sanz.
