CARLOS SÁNCHEZ

Carlos Sánchez Born in Navahermosa (Toledo) and settled in Asturias. At the age of 6 he began his musical and guitar steps in Madrid. At 11, the teacher and guitarist Pepe Núñez introduced him as a flamenco player. Later he entered the ARTURO SORIA Conservatory of Music in Madrid, Cátedra Flamenca, where he met and apprenticed with the guitar teacher RAUL MANNOLA, MARIANO MANGAS, J. ANTONIO DIAZ and IGOR NEDELJKOVIC. There he studied Choir, musical Language, Singing Accompaniment, Jazz, Dance, Accompaniment, History of Music, Analysis, Flamenco theory, Musical Computing, Harmony and Flamenco Guitar. It is an an End of Degree Award granted by the Community of Madrid and the Arturo Soria Conservatory.

Currently he tours nationally and internationally with dance companies and different singers and singers. He works in tablaos and flamenco clubs, as a soloist and as an accompanist. He is an official guitarist at the Peña Cultural Flamenca „Enrique Morente“. He has touched artists of stature of ISABEL PANTOJA, MARIA TOLEDO ISRAEL FERNANDEZ, ESTEBAN BOLADO, ALBA GUTIERREZ, PERLITA DE HUELVA, RAFAEL “EL FALO“, VERONIKA LOZANO, ROCIO RUIZ, NIVES HIDALGO, LUCIA LEIVA and EVA DURAN, among others.

In 2016 he won the Extraordinary End of Degree Aword from the Community of Madrid, being the first flamenco guitarist to achive it. As a result of this act, he offerd a guitar recital at the National Auditorium, sharing the stage with award-winning musicians from other modalities. This same year he led the roundtable of the Municipal Senior Center “Sagrado Corazón“ School in Santander.

In 2021 he worked as a flamenco guitar teacher in Cabezón de la Sal y Benza (Cantabria), Marina Peña Music Academy. 2022-2023 he is a guitarist for the flamenco company “Al Aire“ and is a flamenco guitar teacher at the “Esencia“ school in Santander. In the last three years he has specialized in world folck music, choral conducting and soundtrack composition from the University of Cantabria.

At the moment he directs several projects. He is about to finish his first album “dulcinea de Melque“ and in 2021 published his book “Flamenco con Historia“. In 2024, he published a literary work titled “The Sound of Life“. He has collaborated with Irish folk, jazz and classical musicians