Cristian Perez Classical Guitarist from Fairfax, VA
Will travel up to 100 miles
- Avg 5.0 | 21 Reviews
- 41 Verified Bookings
- Member Since 2011
- 4 Awards & Badges
- Virtual Services Offered
- Accepts Online Payment
- Starting at $100 per hour
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Touring guitarist Cristian Perez is currently a prolific performer local of the Northern Virginia area. With over 15 years of experience, he has provided high quality music to hundreds of private events. Cristian plays classical guitar, and is also very comfortable playing jazz, South American music, and pop. Cristian provides his own equipment. Cristian Perez is a guitarist/composer born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He's a former Artist in Residence at Strathmore. Since he moved to the United States in 2002, he has obtained a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree from George Mason University with concentrations in both Classical Guitar Performance and Jazz Studies. Having had the privilege of being mentored by respected musicians of diverse styles such as Berta Rojas, Rick Whitehead, Larry Snitzler, Mike Stern, Mark Brandt, Ken Hall, and Steve Herberman, he is a very versatile musician. During his one year of study at the Levine School of Music, in which he studied with Berta Rojas, he acquired two distinction diplomas. He was a winner of the GMU Honors Recital in 2009-2012, and Outstanding Service Awards in the College of Visual and Performing Arts upon graduation. He has performed in various classical guitar master classes with Pepe Romero, Roland Dyens, Margarita Escarpa, Eleftheria Kotzia, Carlos Perez, and Carlos Barbosa-Lima, and has performed in the GMU Jazz Ensemble, with which he traveled to Shanghai and Beijing (China) in 2011, He has played at Blues Alley, Twins Jazz Club, the Museum of the American Indian, the National Gallery of Art, and for the Argentine Festival, and the Shanghai Concert Hall. He has also toured South Korea, and Bolivia. Cristian is currently active in the Metropolitan area in many different settings: as a solo guitarist, and ensembles such as: guitar duos, 2 guitars-bass, guitar-bass-drums, guitar-drums, guitar-bass, guitar-trombone, guitar-sax, guitar-steel pan, guitar-voice, etc., etc., etc.... Open to all types of private events. Very flexible and musically sensitive.
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- Fly me to the moon | Sinatra
- Recuerdos de la Alhambra | Tarrega
- Moon River | Mancini/Mercer
- Romance | Anonymous
- Summer time | Gershwin
- Don't know why | Norah Jones
- Yesterday | Beatles
- Girl from Ipanema | Jobim
- All of me
- Manha do carnaval | Bonfa
- Quiet nights of quiet stars | Jobim
- Autumn Leaves
- Over the rainbow
- Here comes the sun | Beatles
- What a wonderful world | L. Armstrong
- Oye como va | Tito Puente/Santana
- Isn't She Lovely? | Stevie Wonder
- Norwegian Wood | Beatles
- Can't help falling in love | Elvis Presley
- Air on a G string | Bach
- Alfonsina y el Mar | Ariel Ramirez
- Canon in D | Pachelbel
- The shadow of your smile
- Jesu joy of man's desiring | Bach
- Lagrima | Tarrega
- Thinking out loud | Ed Sheeran
- Asturias | Albeniz
- Hallelujah | Leornard Cohen
- Cavatina | Stanley Yates
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