Michael Lorimer
Classical and Baroque Guitar

MICHAEL LORIMER - a favorite protégé of Andres Segovia who describes him as "one of the most talented young guitarists of these times and is the one I appreciate the most" - caught the attention of American audiences in the early 1970s through tours arranged by the great impresario Sol Hurok. His popularity quickly extended beyond the shores of America when he became the first American guitarist invited to perform in the former Soviet Union. He has also appeared throughout Europe, Israel and Cuba and most major North American recital series.

He is the first world-class guitarist to regularly feature the baroque guitar in recital. Twenty years ago, long before the present vogue in original instruments, Michael Lorimer was a pioneer bringing attention to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century predecessor to the modern instrument.

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