Cesar Amaro was born in Montevideo (Uruguay) in 1948, belonging
to a family with a large musical tradition. He began his guitar studies when
he was eleven years old with Maestro Abel Carlevaro, with whom he continued
working for perfection, while he learned Armonia and Composition at the National
Conservatorium of the University in Montevideo.
He is now an active teacher, and the headmaster of the Guitar Superior Studies
at the Conservatoriums of the towns of San José y Rocha (Uruguay). He
has taught by Maestro Abel Carlevaro in some Master-Classes for Uruguayan teachers
in 1976, 1977, 1978 y 1987. His dense artistic activity includes presentations
as solo player, in guitar duo and with orchestra in several cities in Uruguay,
in Buenos Aires (Colon's Theatre, San Martin's Thatre) and in Europe (Polland,
Rumania, Italy, Bulgary, France, Switzerland and Spain) with great success.
He has attended international festivals, as solo player and with orchestra ("Festivale
Internazionale delle Nazione" in Rome (Italy), "Festival de Cinémas
et Cultures de L´América Latine" in Biarritz (France); "
Festival Argentina 97"; 1°y 2° Festival Internacional "Ciudad
de Montevideo" in Montevideo (Uruguay)).
He also has been jury in international guitar competitions. Active arranger
and composer, he created several works for guitar solo, for two guitars and
for chamber orchestra. There are recordings and didactic material of his own
in his edited material. Some composers have dedicated him music pieces: Mario
Sagradini, (Concierto Criollo for guitar and orchestra), Diego Legrand, (Tarde
Gris, tango), Abel Carlevaro, (the last book of Microestudios), Dimitri Dumitrescu
(Variaciones sobre un teme de Bártok), Elizabeth González (Alternativa).
He has recorded for Orfeo and Tacuabé, in Uruguay; Edimur, in Argentina;
and Gemecs in Spain.
Amaro has specialized in the interpretation of the work of the paraguyayan composer
Agustín Barrios, giving conferences, concertos and master-classes about
his life and music in America and Europe. In 1987, he received a recognition
from the Centro Guitarrístico del Uruguay (Guitar Center of Uruguay)
because of his relevant musical activity. He is the Guitar Center of Uruguay's
president since 1992. The Guitar Center of Uruguay was founded in 1937, and
his Honor President is Maestro Abel Carlevaro. He conduces the guitar TV program
"La Guitarra y sus Intérpretes" which goes every week for the
whole country of Uruguay by the official channel and the National System of
TV:
Some Critiques:
".. great instrumentist and excellent
musician. His playing impresses for the incredible delicacy" (Raúl
Nicrosi - Mundocolor- Uruguay)
"Great expressive vitality. In the baroque of Bach, the nationalism of
Carlevaro and the intimate of Barrios, he seemed unreachable" (Nelson
Giguens - El Día - Uruguay)
"..with an irreproachable technique he conquered the meloman auditorium,
really converting the solo instrument in a true orchestra" (Silvian Georgescu-Romania
Libera - Rumania)
"... a Maestro of the old spanish instrument; ... a virtuoso for who
the instrument has no more secrets. César Amaro has a sovereign technique
that allows him unsuspected delicacies" (Eugene Vicos - Diplomat Club
- Rumania)
".... Uruguay's golden guitar" (Eliana Mitova - Noshten Trud - Bulgaria)
"... one of the maximums south American of our time" guitars (Ludmila
Petra - Radio Bulgaria