Eduardo Fernandez

A longtime fixture of the Decca label's guitar catalog, guitarist Eduardo Fernández is one of South America's most renowned masters of his instrument. He is also a noted pedagogue and the author of an internationally successful guitar method. Fernández was born on August 28, 1952, in La Paz, a suburb of Montevideo, Uruguay. He took up the guitar at age seven, studying with Raúl Sanchez, who had studied with Andrés Segovia. Fernández's style has sometimes been compared with Segovia's. When Fernández was 11, he and his brother, with whom he often played duets, gave their first ...