Manuel Barrueco

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Born in Santiago de Cuba,{{cite news | title=When I'm Sixty-Four | url=https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/artsentertainment/guitarist-manuel-barrueco-reflects-on-25-year-career-at-peabody/ | work=Baltimore Magazine | author=John Lewis | date=June 2017 | access-date=2024-10-16}} Barrueco began playing the guitar at the age of eight. Following the 1959 Cuban revolution, Barrueco's father withdrew his son from the state schools, and obtained private at-home education for his three children, Manuel and his sisters Miriam and Lucia. Barrueco subsequently attended the Esteban Salas Conservatory for music studies. In 1967, Barrueco and his family emigrated to the United States as political refugees. Initially resident in Miami, Florida, Barrueco continued his guitar studies in Miami with Juan Mercadal. The family then moved to Newark, New Jersey, where Barrueco continued his guitar studies with Rey de la Torre.{{cite news | title=Manuel Barrueco's School Days: The Long Road from 'Difficult Student' to Master Teacher | url=https://classicalguitarmagazine.com/manuel-barruecos-school-days-the-long-road-from-difficult-student-to-master-teacher/ | work=Classical Guitar Magazine | author=Thêrèse Wassily Saba | date=Fall 2016 | access-date=2024-10-16}}

Barrueco made his Carnegie Hall recital debut in 1974.{{cite news | title=Music in Review | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/03/archives/music-in-review-goldstein-pianist-assays-century.html | work=The New York Times | author=Robert Sherman | date=1974-11-03 | access-date=2024-10-16}} He joined the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music in 1974. He graduated from the Peabody Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1975.{{cite news | title=Hear Barrueco's Soothing Song | url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2005/07/12/hear-barruecos-soothing-song/ | work=Baltimore Sun | author=Tim Smith | date=2005-07-11 | access-date=2024-10-16}} Barrueco joined the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory in 1990.{{cite press release | url=https://peabody.jhu.edu/alumni/award-winners/manuel-barrueco/ | title=Manuel Barrueco: Peabody Distinguished Alumni Award (2004) | publisher=Peabody Conservatory of Music | date=1 May 2004 | access-date=2024-10-16}}

Barrueco has made several recordings for EMI, including his 2006 album, ¡Cuba!.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Guitarist-Manuel-Barrueco-Captures-the-Soul-of-2934474.php|title=Guitarist Manuel Barrueco Captures the Soul of Cuba|last=Roca|first=Octavio|date=1999-04-25|website=SFGate|access-date=2019-10-13}} In the 2000's, Barrueco started his own record label, Tonar.{{cite news | title=Classical guitarist Manuel Barrueco wants to pay it forward at U. City concert | url=https://www.stltoday.com/life-entertainment/local/classical-guitarist-manuel-barrueco-wants-to-pay-it-forward-at-u-city-concert/article_76102e88-f613-11ee-b388-0be5ec008518.html | work=Saint Louis Post-Dispatch | author=Daniel Durchholz | date=2024-04-09 | access-date=2024-10-16}} His performances have been broadcast by television stations such as NHK in Japan, Bayerischer Rundfunk in Germany, and RTVE in Spain. In the United States, he has been featured in a Lexus car commercial, on CBS Sunday Morning, A&E's Breakfast with the Arts, and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. A one-hour documentary portrait, Manuel Barrueco: A Gift and a Life,{{cite web|url=http://www.mlfilms.com/productions/manuel_barrueco|title=Manuel Barrueco: A Gift and a Life|work=DVD|publisher=Michael Lawrence Films}} was produced in 2006. It includes several performances and interviews, in one of which he reminisces over his childhood years in Cuba, and pledges never to return until the present communist regime has come to an end. In 2012, Barrueco was named a Fontanals Fellow of United States Artists.{{cite web|url=http://www.unitedstatesartists.org|title=United States Artists|author=|date=|accessdate=8 November 2015}}

Barrueco has been married twice. His second wife, Asgerdur Sigurdardottir, manages the Tonar label and Barrueco's business matters.

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• {{official|http://www.barrueco.com}}
• [http://www.tonarmusic.com Record company Tonar]
• [http://www.allmusic.com/artist/manuel-barrueco-mn0000942875/biography All Music page on Manuel Barrueco]
• [https://peabody.jhu.edu/faculty/manuel-barrueco/ Peabody Institute page on Manuel Barrueco]
• [http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=exact&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/IGRAdiscography&CISOBOX1=Barrueco%2C+Manuel Some photos of LP covers]{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (Oviatt Library Digital Collections)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20061214105403/http://www.urbanguitar.com/main_stage/articles/bay_of_barrueco Interview] with UrbanGuitar.com
• [http://paulmagnussen.com/manuel-barrueco-interview.html Interview] with Paul Magnussen for Guitar magazine (Apr 1983)
• [http://auralstates.com/2007/12/interview-manuel-barrueco-classical-guitarist.html Interview] with Greg Szeto for Aural States (Dec 2007) [https://web.archive.org/web/20090303163853/http://bmoretunes.com/?page_id=66 alt.]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071010055643/http://www.guitarfoundation.org/drupal/forum/974 In Session: Manuel Barrueco] Forum GFA "Guitar Foundation of America"
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100704003144/http://columbiaguitarstudio.com/brouwerbarruecoarticles.html Leo Brouwer and Manuel Barrueco Interviews] by David Reynolds

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