Guitarist Esteban

Guitarist and composer Esteban grew up in London where he began playing guitar at the age of ten. His love of jazz led him to the music of nylon string jazz guitarists like Laurindo Almeida and Charlie Byrd. The desire to imitate these masters led, in turn, to his studying classical guitar at night school. Esteban earned his M.A. in Music Composition at San Francisco State University where he studied with Pulitzer prize-winning composer Wayne Peterson.
Esteban is a respcted expert on flamenco and classical guitar and has written over 100 articles on the guitar for Acoustic Guitar Magazine, Guitar Player, Fingerstyle Guitar, Classical Guitar, and Dance Magazine, as well as reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Reader.
Since 1996, EC Flamenco has performed in concerts and tablaos across the United States and Canada and in Spain. While there, guitarist Esteban wrote much of the music that became EC Flamencos’ core repertoire. Since then, the group has toured the U.S. and Canada, performed in Spain, collaborated with artists from all over the world, and released a CD featured on NPRs Morning Edition.