Music in mourning: farewell to guitarist Armando Marrosu
The Sassari master has worked and taught not only in Italy, but also in Spain and the United States
For everyone he was the Master. Not just for the hundreds of students who have learned from a sensitive and generous musician. At the age of 86, Armando Marrosu, a great guitarist who was fundamental for Sassari music and who taught not only in Italy, but also in Spain and the United States, has passed away, and has held international concerts and also recorded for Rai.
Armando Marrosu studied in Spain with Emilio Pujol (together with Segovia the deity of the six strings) in honor of whom twenty years later he created a coveted Biennial International Guitar Competition in Sassari. He graduated from the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. After winning the first performance prize at the National Guitarists Festival 1963, he participated in an international composition competition: the piece presented received a recommendation from the jury and was published by Edizioni Bérben.
In 1977 he founded with a group of students, the Sassarese Guitar Association and didactic activity holding guitar courses in Italy, USA (New England Conservatory in Boston), Spain (Conservatory of Lleida, Conservatory of Monzòn, "Semana de la Guitarra ”Of Petrer-Alicante and from 1985 Curs Internacional de Musica di Cervera).
He taught guitar for thirty years at the “Luigi Canepa” Conservatory of Music in Sassari.
In 1992 he was awarded the Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International.
In 2000 he received the "Golden Guitar" for teaching, an important international recognition established in Alessandria in 1996.
In November 2011, on the occasion of the VIII Certamen Internacional de Guitarra “Miguel Llobet” held in the Conservatory of Barcelona, he received the Tota una vida honorary prize for the Guitarra.
