Flamenco guitarist Anoush Saadat (Paris, 1991) began playing the classical guitar at the age of eight and received his first flamenco guitar lessons when he was thirteen. Three years later he enrolled at the prestigious Cristina Heeren Foundation in Seville. He received lessons from flamenco guitarists Eduardo Rebollar, Paco Cortés, Pedro Sierra and Niño de Pura. At the same institute he began accompanying lessons of singers such as José el de la Tomasa, Julián Estrada, Nazaret Gala or Jeromo Segura. In 2017 he was admitted to the flamenco department of Codarts to study with Paco Peña, one of the world’s foremost traditional flamenco players. In 2021, he completed his studies with a Summa Cum Laude.
His debut as a soloist was made in the Picasso Museum in Málaga in 2010. The year after he was awarded the first prize at the Certamen de Jóvenes Flamencos de Sevilla both for his performance as accompanist and soloist. From then on he performed throughout Spain. He has shared the stage with prominent flamenco artists such as Alberto Sellés, Francisco Escudero “El Perrete”, Miriam Méndez, Cristina Tovar and Eduardo Rebollar. He has also performed in China, Japan, England, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and Austria.
Anoush Saadat is a sought-after soloist, ensemble player with dancers and singers, known for his creative flamenco compositions.
2011
“The breeze of freedom that he brings… is an intensely lyrical, a very poetic vision of the instrument, nothing abstract and without unnecessary notes.”
Diario de Sevilla (21 December 2011)
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