Горячев, Гриша
Grisha Goryachev is a Russian virtuoso flamenco and classical guitarist.
Biography
A native of St. Petersburg, Goryachev began to play the guitar at the age of six, taught by his father Dmitry, a master teacher of the guitar and learned quickly. He was a child prodigy, performing regularly in the top concert halls of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Minsk, Riga and other cities in the Soviet Union from the age of 9.[1] He also performed as a child ond Soviet radio and television and participated in the T.V. marathon, Revival of St. Petersburg, broadcast across the world.
In 1991, Goryachev performed at the UN headquarters in New York City and toured the Nordic countries, performing for Icelandic royalty.[1] In 1993, he represented St. Petersburg in the Days of St. Petersburg in Jerusalem Festival, and in 1994 he performed at an Andres Segovia memorial concert at the Festival International de Colmar in Colmar, France. In 1997 he toured Spain and met and performed with flamenco master Paco de Lucía who aided him in applying for a visa to come to the United States.[1] He has since played with other Flamenco masters such as Vicente Amigo, Manolo Sanlucar and Rafael Riqueni.
In May 2005 he was awarded a special prize of Best Performance of Spanish Music at the VI International Classical Guitar Competition in Almería, Spain, later performing at the Festival de Música Española de Cádiz and the Festival de Música de Jimena de la Frontera.[1] He is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, studying under Eliot Fisk.[2]
