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• Professor of Music, Jacobs School of Music
• Chair, Department of Guitar

Education:

• National Professor of Guitar , Universidad del Litoral, Argentina, 1964

Background:

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Ernesto Bitetti has performed with orchestras worldwide, including chamber orchestras in England, Italy, Switzerland, Prague, Munich, Israel, and Zagreb, and the symphony orchestras of London, Munich, Frankfurt, Suisse Romande, Madrid, Hamburg, Liverpool, Saint Louis, Stuttgart, BBC, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, and others.

Mr. Bitetti received Spanish National Awards records from 1979 to 1985. He was a member of the Composers Society of Argentina and Spain from 1976 to 1988. He has performed world premieres of works by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Joaquin Rodrigo, Tomas Marco, and Anton Garcia Abril. Mr. Bitetti has recorded on the EMI International and Deutsche Grammophon labels.

• "Bitetti is a concertist without frontier" -- Madrid ABC
• "A star of the guitar" -- Amsterdam Het Parool
• "Ernesto Bitetti is a classical guitarist of the highest calibre" -- Tokyo Mainichi
• "A First rate virtuoso" -- The New York Times
• "Sensitive musician and brilliant technician" --Vienna, Wiener Zeitung
• "Posesses the art of clarity and evocation" -- Paris Aurore

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