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Alirio Diaz

Alirio Diaz, splendid example of natural talent, was born at Caserio la Candelara, a small venezuelan village near to Carora, on the 12th of November in 1923, in a family of modest origins, eighth of eleven brothers.
Since a child he proves a great interest for music with different instruments, but choosing guitar as his expressive way.
Pupil of the founder of the venezuelan guitaristic school, Raul Borges, at Conservatorio in Caracas, where he takes his first concert in 1950, Daiz ends his preparation at Conservatorio in Madrid with Regino Sainz de la Maza. Just an year of frequency (1958) is enough to obtain the first prize.
From Spain he reaches Italy where the M.o Andrèas Segovia has a class nearby to the accademy Chigiana of Siena: Diaz will become his first assistance and substitute until 1964.
From that year, his name and his fame spread everywhere in the world.
His brillant concertistic carrier begins in those years. With the M.o Segovia's teachings, with the contacts with other important author, as Villa-Lobos, Lauro and others, with his virtuousity combined to a strong artistic sensibility, Alirio Diaz becomes one of the most famous guitar perfomers in the twentieth century. He has concerts in many european nations, in Japan, in the Unitd States, in Australia and he becomes citizen of the world.