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José Miguel Moreno was born in Madrid and started studying music at the age of 4.  During his period of formation, he won, among others, the First Prize of the Incontri Chitarristici di Garnano (Italy 1977). He specializes in historical interpretation, although his repertoire ranges from XVIth  to XXth century.  He plays on original instruments, vihuela, Renaissance and baroque guitars, Renaissance and baroque lute, theorbo, romantic guitars, all of them either original instruments or faithful copies.  In this field, José Miguel Moreno is recognized worldwide as one of the major specialists nowadays.  He has also developped his teaching activities, being invited by the most prestigious universities and Conservatoires in the world.  Together with his wife, Lourdes Uncilla, he researches the historical construction of the instruments of the lute and guitar family.

He has performed in the main festivals and musical halls of Europe, Australia, North and South America and Asia, such as Wiener Musik Verein, Wiener Konzerthaus, Granada International Music Festival, Flanders Festival, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Teatro Real of Madrid, Auditorio Nacional Madrid, Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall in Istambul, Brisbane Biennal, Wigmore Hall of London, Puchkin Hall in Moscow, Metropolitan Museum of New York, La Habana (Cuba), Tokyo (Hokutopia Festival), Bruges Festival in Belgium, Barcelona, Utrecht, Insbrück, Escorial, Paris, Bruxelles, Berlin, Munich, Leipzig, Prague, etc... etc.... For several years, José Miguel Moreno collaborated with Teresa Berganza and recorded for Philipps with the renowned mezzo. He has also undertaken tours and recordings with HESPERION XX and Jordi Savall. Among those:  Lachrimaes of John Dowland for lute and viola.

In 1990 he founded the ensemble LA ROMANESCA, dedicated to the interpretation of Spanish and European baroque music and in 1998 he founds ORPHÉNICA LYRA.  Their first CD of this ensemble released in June 1999 is a tribute to Fuenllana, the blind Spanish Renaissance composer and his master work: Orphénica Lyra.  The second one was released in December 2000 dedicated a to the Spanish baroque composer:  Gaspar Sanz. José Miguel has dedicated a CD to John Dowland, with Eligio Quinteiro in duets. (Dowland Semper) and one dedicated to Luis de Millan.  The next CD which is dedicated to Don Quixote.

José Miguel Moreno has interpreted, recently in Belgium (Bruges, Antwerp and Brussels) the Fantasia para un gentilhombre of Joaquín Rodrigo for guitar and orchestra with the Flandes Symphonical Orchestra.

José Miguel Moreno has recorded for Philipps, Emi, GLOSSA, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and Astree Auvidis. At the moment he records with GLOSSA.

Through his record career JOSÉ MIGUEL MORENO has received many distinctions as CHOC DU MONDE DE LA MUSIQUE, DIAPASON D’OR, 10 of REPERTOIRE, EDITOR'S CHOICE OF GRAMMOPHONE, CD COMPACT PRIZES, FANFARE WANT LIST, CD COMPACT PRIZES, RITMO, GOLDBERG 5 STARS, INTERNATIONAL PRIZE OF THE FONDAZIONES GIORGIO CINI DE VENIZIA, etc...

José Miguel Moreno (Laute, Vihuela, Barock Gitarre) - In Madrid geboren, spezialisierte er sich auf die historische Aufführungspraxis, obwohl sich sein Repertoire vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart erstreckt.

Konzerte im Wiener Musikverein, beim Festival Flandern, bei der Biennale in Brisbane, der Londoner Wigmore Hall, dem New York Metropolitan Museum, dem Moskauer Puschkin Saal und unzähligen anderen namhaften Bühnen der Welt beeindrucken sein Publikum, welches sich zu wahrlichen Begeisterungsstürmen hinreißen lässt.

Die Süddeutsche Zeitung schrieb: (…) faszinierend, wie es Moreno kraft seiner ausgefeilten Technik gelingt, drei- bis vierhundert Jahre alte Stücke so lebendig vorzutragen, dass man glauben möchte, sie seien viel jünger (…).

Mehr als ein Dutzend Schallplattenpreise aus aller Welt bestätigen die Lebendigkeit seiner Arbeit.

Muy bien!