Tucson
Guitar
School

Maxi Larrea is an internationally recognized guitarist, composer, arranger, music director and music educator from Argentina. He holds an Argentine national certificate in classical guitar and music education and has 16 years of experience working and developing K-8 music curricula in public schools in Argentina and the U.S. In Tucson, he directs two Argentine music groups, performs as a soloist, and runs a home studio where he composes, records, arranges, and teaches guitar students from around the world. He also works at the Tucson Medical Center TMC Healing Art Program as a Hospital Guitarist. In 2020, Larrea released a solo guitar album entitled Donde Termina el Rio, available on streaming platforms. In 2021 he received a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts to write a book of guitar tango arrangements called Solo Tango Guitar: 10 Beginning-Intermediate Arrangements, published in 2023.  An accomplished tango and folklore guitarist, he has recorded many albums and toured internationally in Asia, Europe, and North America. He also has performance experience in many prestigious national music festivals in Argentina, including the internationally acclaimed Festival Guitarras del Mundo (Guitars of the World Festival) held in Argentina in October 2022, where he was flown in from Tucson to perform. He has also participated in the renowned World Tango Championships where he was recognized as a competition finalist. In 2023 he received  a renowned Master-Apprentice Award from the Southwest Folklife Alliance to pass on his knowledge of tango guitar styles.  To hear and learn more about his professional projects, see www.maxilarrea.com.