Artist · Guitar
Manuel Angel Trejo Barrios
Biography
Manuel Angel Trejo Barrios
Born in Venezuela (1997) Manuel Angel Trejo Barrios began his musical studies within El Sistema Nacional de Orquestas Simon Bolivar in Caracas, under the guidance of the Dutch teacher Franka Verhagen when he was 14 years old.
In 2015 he attended the Universidad Católica Cecilio Acosta “UNICA”, in Maracaibo, where he studied chamber music, participating to a large guitar ensemble specialized in the Venezuelan folklore. At that time he collaborated with El Cuarteto in several master classes.
During the summer of 2017 he moved to Italy to continue his academic studies at the Conservatory of Music in Rovigo, where he actually attends a Master in Classical Guitar with the professor Monica Paolini. In 2019 he participated in several festivals as the "Festina Lente", "Federico Cesi" and "Latinamerican cultural week" in New York, where he received different awards.
He attended master classes with various European guitarists such as S. Palamidessi, L. Kuropaczewski, J. Fostier, C. Marcotulli, M. Socias, L. Michelli and he is actually attending Pablo Márquez´s classes since the winter of 2021 in Basel, Switzerland.