Logroño, (EFE).- The guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, considered the successor of Andrés Segovia, has defended that “the guitar is the intangible heritage of Spain, of our history and culture.”
This was confirmed, in statements to journalists, before being awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of La Rioja (UR) for “giving value to the guitar as part of the heritage intrinsically linked to culture” of Spain, as well as to “education as an essential element to evolve as a society”.
The guitar is “one of the few instruments that is totally linked to a country”, added Sáinz-Villegas (Logroño, 1977), who has given numerous concerts around the world, many of them with symphony orchestras.
“Education has been a very important part of my life, my parents have been teachers”, he said, and through his social project “The legacy of music without borders”, he has brought music closer to more than 45,000 children. and young people, since it believes in education as an “element to raise knowledge at an individual and collective level”.
He has pointed out that the recognition he has received from the University of La Rioja “celebrates the values of education and knowledge”, which are also his values ”as a musician and as a human being”.
During his acceptance speech for this recognition, he recalled Paulino García, his teacher in Logroño, who taught him “the rigor of pure quality sound, with entity and as a vehicle for music and a key to enter people’s hearts.” ”.
“It was a great gift that allows me, to this day, to be the only guitarist in the world who plays without amplification with symphony orchestras”, said Sáinz-Villegas, who, after his words, has interpreted, by surprise, the Jota de Francisco Tarrega.
EFE