User:AlvaroGuevaraVazquez

' Alvaro Guevara y Vázquez, composer, B.M.I'. was born in Nogales,Sonora, Mexico in April of 1962 to a family of intellectuals, artists and social revolutionaries, that includes notable Infantry Commanders of the 1917 Mexican Revolution. For the past thirty five years he has been a composer and pianist. He studied pianoforte with Professor, Jesse Alvarado a pupil of James C. MacDonald, a pupil of Russian Romantic Sergei Rachmaninoff and with Professor, Ruth van Birkhoff of Harvard University, a pupil of American Concert Pianist, William Masselos. He began his glorious journey quite late in his life, but in the past thirty years he has accomplished a great many things. His music is Neo-Romantic and embodies his finest thoughts and feelings. Alvaro Guevara y Vazquez is a direct descendant of 12th Century Spanish-Basque Aristocrat, Vela Ladrón de Guevara, 1st Count of Oñate and Prince of Navarra, also known as "Vela de Alava" (http://www.fabpedigree.com/s032/f369211.htm) whose ancestors include Holy Roman Emperor, Charlemagne. You can visit his official website that contains his original classical music for Pianoforte by clicking the link at the bottom of his photograph.