Barbosa-Lima, Carlos

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Barbosa-Lima, Carlos

Barbosa-Lima, Carlos, Brazilian guitarist and teacher; b. Sāo Paulo, Dec. 17, 1944. He began to study the guitar when he was seven and at age 12 he made his debut in Sâo Paulo. His principal teachers were Isaias Savio in Brazil and Andrés Segovia in Spain. In 1967 he made his first tour of the U.S., and subsequently appeared in music centers around the world. From 1982 to 1994 he taught at the Manhattan School of Music in N.Y. He commissioned works from Ginastera, Balada, and Mignone, and made his own effective transcriptions of scores by Bach, Handel, and other masters.

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire

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