03.31.23

Javier de los Santos

Javier de los Santos

Date: Friday, March 31, 2023

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Arlette Day Cultural Arts Center

4914 S. State Street, Murray, UT 84107

Masterclass: Info here

Classical guitarist Javier de los Santos began his formal music studies in 1998 in guitar performance under Francisco Javier Muro Guevara at the Unidad Académica de Música de la Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (UAMUAZ) in the State of Zacatecas, México. In 2006, under the guidance of Mr. Eric vanDiver Nohe, Javier earned his Bachelor of Arts in Guitar Performance at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado. Javier holds a Master of Music in Guitar Performance from the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music and studied with the renowned Maestro Ricardo Iznaola.

De los Santos has performed extensively in México, U.S., Spain and Brazil. His recent performances include at the Sherbino Theater in Ridway, Colorado; the Aspen Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado; a solo concert at the Blue Sage Center for the Arts in Paonia, Colorado; and the Apollo Chamber Players from Houston, Texas at the GJSO Chamber Concert Series. He has performed with Pepe Romero and the Romeros Guitar Quartet at the Celedonio Romero Guitar Institute in Oklahoma City; with the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra performing Antonio Vivaldi’s Guitar Concertos in D major and A major and the 'Fantasia para un gentil hombre' and the 'Concierto de Aranjuez' for guitar and orchestra by Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo. He held a recital at Brigham Young University in Utah, and has performed various recitals and performances in Europe and in Mexico.

From the Fall 2015 till 2018, de los Santos was a guitar instructor for the Lead Guitar-Aspen Music Festival and School Guitar Programs in the Roaring Fork Valley. He is also the president and artistic director of the Western Colorado Guitar Society based in Grand Junction, Colorado. De los Santos lives in Grand Junction and enjoys teaching guitar privately and teaches Music Theory, Mariachi and Guitar at Colorado Mesa University.

He is also a guitar instructor at Independence Academy Charter School, music director at St. Joseph Catholic Church and founder and artistic director of Mariachi San Jose based in Grand Junction, Colorado. De los Santos was the first-place winner of the 2009 Denver Classical Guitar Society Solo Debut Competition and semifinalist at the 2010 Texas Annual Guitar Competition and Festival.