Marcus Llerena was born in 1955 and began his classical guitar studies at age 16 with Norberto Macedo in Brazil. In 1975 he moved to Spain and studied for three years with classical guitar masters D. Aureo and Rocio Herrero. He was awarded prizes at the Royal Conservatory in Madrid, at the de Falla competition in Granada, and at the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation's "Presence de la Musique" competition, the Porto Alegre competition 1981, and the Sablè sur Sarthe in France in 1983. In 1982 he was selected to take part in a master class given by Andres Segovia at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. He earned a Master's degree in Music at the Université Musicale Internationale of Paris. Llerena has given many concerts in Brazil, France, Britain, and Spain; his most recent tours were in early 2006 in France and Germany. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.