About Celso Cano

Celso Cano was born in Lima, Peru. In 1985, he and his family moved to the United States. He began his guitar studies under the direction of Lou Mowad in Miami, Florida at the age of thirteen. At seventeen, he was awarded a scholarship to continue his studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. There he worked with Tom Patterson and won several guitar competitions. He also received the D'Addario fellowship to attend the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival in 1995, where he worked with guitarist and composer David Leisner. In 1998, he earned his Bachelor of Arts in performance and shortly thereafter moved to Barcelona, Spain to pursue his concert career. While in Barcelona, he began studying guitar performance with Iliana Matos at Luthier School for the Musical Arts. At that time, he also began composing and was fortunate to be guided in that pursuit by the prolific Cuban composer Leo Brouwer.