Carlo Fierens - Napoléon Coste: Complete Guitar Works Vol.1: Études (2020)

Described as “one of the most attractive and engaging artists of the guitar nowadays” (Ricardo Iznaola), Carlo Fierens was born in Finale Ligure, Italy. Active as performer, musicologist, and educator, he has distinguished himself in all these fields. As a performer, he has won numerous prizes in International competitions (most notably the Alirio Diaz competition in Rome, the Indianapolis Matinée Musicale Competition, and the National Prize for the Arts in Italy). He is leading concert activities that have brought him to perform in many countries through Europe, America, and Asia, and in prestigious venues such as the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

His music has also been featured by broadcasting companies such as RAI (National Italian Television), National Public Radio of Armenia, National Polish Radio, and Radio Nacional Argentina. Sandro Cappelletto, music critic of the Italian newspaper “La Stampa”, selected him among the most promising musicians of the new generation, and wrote: “Fierens well captures contrasts, sudden changes of writing, returning a rich sound, now bitter, now sweet, in a phrase and a ‘breath’ of the time of execution already very aware.”

Carlo Fierens started the study of the guitar with his father Guillermo, an acclaimed international concertist. He later studied in Trento with Norma Lutzemberger while completing musicological studies in the University of Pavia. He carried on his education in the USA, achieving an Artist Diploma at the University of Denver with Ricardo Iznaola and Jonathan Leathwood, and at the Jacobs School of Music (Indiana University) under the tutelage of Ernesto Bitetti.