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THOMAS LORENZO, THE SPANISH AUSTRALIAN GUITAR

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Son of Spanish immigrants that left behind fascism in the 50’s to start a new life in Australian democracy. He started playing the spanish guitar at the age of 10 in a musical environment based on traditional Spanish music and the Australian´s 70´s rock and pop scene.

When Franco died and democracy was reinstalled in Spain the family returned to Barcelona . In time he became an active player in the Barcelona Music scene successfully achieving with his first band being selected as finalist at the yearly held festival of the “Spanish Ministerio de Asuntos Sociales” in Ibiza, 1989, where promising new jazz artists are awarded.

In 1989 he was accepted by Berklee College of Music , Boston, U.S.A , graduating in Commercial Arranging in 1992 under the supervision of Grammy award winner Robert Freedman. In the following years his career as a guitarist and composer went in up rise.

Hired in 1993 buy the Bogota’s( Colombia) World Trade Centre recording studio , Sincrosonido, as composer and arranger for their latin american production services This was the place where latin music finally came soaring into his music.

He then moved back to Spain and just kept on going strong touring France for four years on the Europe Connection Projects culminating in a series of commissions by The Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts and The National Arts Lottery Council to write a 50 minute suite called the Immigrant and the commission to write the book on Arranging and Composition
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