Carles Trepat (born 1960) is a Spanish

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. He has won several international prizes, including the "Premio Tárrega" in the "Certamen Internacional Francisco Tárrega de Benicàssim". In July 2014, he was awarded with the "Honorific Prize José Tomás" in

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. Trepat was born in

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(Spain) in 1960, where he started studying guitar when he was thirteen with Jordi Montagut. In 1976, he attended the last classical guitar course given by

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who was a student of

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. Some of his other teachers were

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and Rafael Andia. Trepat was an assistant professor of

and he usually plays with historical guitars made by luthiers like Antonio Torres, Joseph Pagés, Santos Hernández, Hermanos Conde or modern guitars build by José Luis Romanillos and Daniel Bernaert. Some of his latest performances were given with real gut and silk strings on his 1892 Antonio Torres guitar. He is credited for discovering and playing music of Miguel García -Padre Basilio-, who was

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's teacher. Some of his CD recordings include music by

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, Antonio José and

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among others.

Discography

* ''"Música espanyola per a guitarra"'' CD, La mà de guido, 1995 * ''"Llora la Guitarra"'' Maestro Quiroga/Carles Trepat CD, Nuevos Medios, 1999 * ''"El Romancero Gitano i 10 Cançons Tradicionals"'' Carles Trepat, Jordi Casas Bayer Cor De Cambra Del Palau De La Musica Catalana CD, Discmedi, 1999 * ''"Carles Trepat interpreta Frederic Mompou"'' CD ,ZANFONIA, 2000 * ''"El Albaicín"'' CD, Nuevos Medios, 2007 * ''"Boccherini: La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid"'' Cuarteto Casals, Carles Trepat ,Eckart Runge. CD Harmonia Mundi 2011 * ''"Granados-LLobet: ...100 anys d'un viatge"'' Carles Trepat. 2015 * ''"Quiroga. Versiones a la guitarra de la copla por Carles Trepat"'' Double CD, EMEC, 2015

References

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