From MSU News Service
Montana State University’s School of Music will host guitarist Arturo Castro Nogueras for a classical concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 14, in Reynolds Recital Hall on the MSU campus. Admission is $10 for the public and $5 for students.
Castro Nogueras will open the program with playing “La Catedral” composed by Agustín Barrios Mangoré, followed with “Verde Luz” composed by Antonio Cabán Vale and arranged by Néstor Hernández. In the second half of the performance, he will perform danzas from Cuba and Puerto Rico and composer Roberto Sierra’s sonata for guitar.
photo by Lena Hogekamp
Castro Nogueras was born in Mexico, moved to Puerto Rico as a child and has strong family ties to Cuba. As he progressed with classical guitar, he went to study classical music in Düsseldorf, Germany, blending musical influences from Latin America with his new surroundings in Europe.
Nogueras has performed across Europe, Africa and North and South America. He received a music award from the city of Düsseldorf for outstanding young artists.
He is also active in interdisciplinary and educational projects, presenting hybrid lecture-concerts on music as an instrument of intercultural dialogue and working with institutions across the world, including the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, the Central Council of Jews in Germany and the Institute of Youth in Mexico City.
Castro Nogueras has a bachelor’s degree in music from the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico and a master’s degree in guitar and early music from the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Düsseldorf. In 2016, he graduated with distinction from the Konzertexamen Excellence Program at the Robert Schumann Hochschule. •
