Utd enric madriguera biography syllabus

Enric Madriguera, UTD’s Director of Guitar Studies and first Russell Cleveland Professor in Guitar Studies died April   

Madriguera was one of the most accomplished guitarists in UTD’s history and a pillar of the Dallas guitar community.

His year tenure at the university included international classical guitar study, the founding of the UTD Guitar Series and the co-founding of the Annual Texas Guitar Competition and Festival at UTD. His contributions to critically acclaimed music in Latin America and local music programs caught the eye of Russell Cleveland, an internationally renowned collector of historically significant classical and acoustic guitars, who endowed Madriguera with the professorship in , making him the first recipient of this honor.

 “I really think that no university or institution is complete without a solid music department,” Madriguera said to The Mercury in a interview. “I wanted t