Miguel Antonio

San Antonio-born Miguel Antonio has found his musical voice through the flamenco guitar playing of Spain and South America. In addition to performing throughout the world as a soloist, <a href="spotify:artist:3Ny8mgw0PCrdmnFrlGG6Re">Antonio</a> has toured and accompanied with Jose Greco and His Ballet Flamenco and Maria Benitez's Estampa Flamenca. The son of a concert pianist, <a href="spotify:artist:3Ny8mgw0PCrdmnFrlGG6Re">Antonio</a> studied music at the age of four. Four years later, he began studying classical guitar under <a href="spotify:artist:2uaXicUC7B0nIKCFaxlTHj">Pepe Romero</a>. In his teens, he enhanced what he had learned by studying with classical guitar masters <a href="spotify:artist:3Din7QXYnTjT52WF62KS97">Andres Segovia</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3QFILZBmorcywC5QvAnm50">Juan Serrano</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:4OYPdvtRCWaLVmUrm1eiTa">Paco Pena</a>. Although he attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 1978, <a href="spotify:artist:3Ny8mgw0PCrdmnFrlGG6Re">Antonio</a>'s real education came when he traveled to Spain to study flamenco under Mario Escudero and Sabricas. Upon his return to the U.S., <a href="spotify:artist:3Ny8mgw0PCrdmnFrlGG6Re">Antonio</a> began working with Jose Greco's flamenco dance troupe, touring the U.S. and South America between 1983 and 1987. In 1988, <a href="spotify:artist:3Ny8mgw0PCrdmnFrlGG6Re">Antonio</a> performed a series of solo guitar recitals in Japan, Spain, and England and toured with Maria Benitez's Estampa Flamenca. In 1991 and 1992, <a href="spotify:artist:3Ny8mgw0PCrdmnFrlGG6Re">Antonio</a> performed and taught in Mexico City at Universidad Oedagogias and Escuela Nacional De Mesia. He returned to the United States to perform in the Broadway show, Man of La Mancha. <a href="spotify:artist:3Ny8mgw0PCrdmnFrlGG6Re">Antonio</a> teaches flamenco guitar in Dallas. ~ Craig Harris, Rovi