When I was quite young I did a very smart thing and went to Spain for a year to study guitar. At the time, there were almost no qualified classical guitar teachers in Canada. I had been studying with one of them in Vancouver and one day he told me I should study with his teacher in Alicante, Spain, José Tomás. While there I met a terrific Japanese guitarist, Masahiro Umemoto, who won the competition that year. There was quite an international community of guitar students around Maestro Tomás including ones from Canada, the US, Japan, the Philippines, Finland, Belgium, the UK, Peru, Mexico and other places. I later realized that I had been lucky enough to be in the very best place on earth to study guitar at that moment in time. I just noticed that Masahiro has a YouTube channel. I encourage you to go have a listen.
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