May Barreto
- Miami, FL
- Guitarist
- 96 Verified Bookings
Karen K. said “May was wonderful!!! Music was exactly what we wanted. He dressed the part. I would HIGHLY recommend him!!”
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Guitarist Alberto Puerto is known for his potent and sensitive interpretations of diverse repertoire.
With his classical background and contemporary style, he is known for his musical colors and delightful, invigorating ambiances, at once making his way in the fusion of classical music with Latin jazz, instrumental music, and Latin American music. Currently, he is presenting his first album, released in 2021, in collaboration with percussion and working on a second album featuring various singers. His guitar performance can bring an elevated quality to any gathering.
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Price Range: Contact for rates
Gig Length: 90 - 120 minutes
Languages: English, Spanish
Event planners can expect a highly professional player who likes to plan ahead. Events can be centered around Classical sound, or Latin and Latin jazz ambiances. The artist can provide sound and amplification for events if needed. Events can be conducted outdoors or indoors, and length of sets typically runs 45 minutes. For those who request a particular repertoire, we ask that they contact us well ahead of the scheduled date in order to prepare those specific tracks.
BIO
Origin: Miami, FL
Genres: Classical Guitar, World & Cuban Music
Official website: (link hidden)
Voting Member: Latin Grammy Awards
Nominations and Awards:
CUBADISCO2021 Nomination, Best Classical Music Album
Cochabamba International Guitar
Competition 2010 and 2012
Musicalia, 2009
BRIEF BIO
Cuban American guitarist Alberto Puerto is known for his potent and sensitive interpretations of diverse repertoire.
His artistic inquiry as a musician promotes improvisation and a lustrous freestyle, replete with musical colors and delightful, invigorating ambiances, always sustained by an enthralling interpretive technique, at once making his way in the fusion of classical music with Latin jazz, instrumental music, and Latin American music.
The reaches of Puerto's music, both sonically and conceptually, transcend the musical world to connect sound with other arts, ennobling the stage experience.
Artist can provide all basic technical equipment for his solo sound and can discuss particulars with planners as needed.
Classical:
Anonymous Romance
Air by Bach
Malaguena
Debussy Clair de Lune
Ode to Joy
Prelude by Bach Cello
Schubert Ave Maria
Serenade by Schubert
Greensleeves
Contemporary:
Brouwer
Un dia de noviembre
The Entertainer (version)
Arpa del guerrero
Popular:
As Time Goes By
Yesterday and other Beatles
Girl from Ipanema
Tears in Heaven
Dust In the Wind
Hotel California
Alberto Puerto has collaborated with important artists from the USA, Spain, Cuba, Czech Republic, Canada, and other countries. The artist has worked with such luminaries as Jiri Sommer, former violinist of the Valladolid Symphony and the Prague Opera, Czech Republic, Jose Luis de la Paz, flameco guitarist and composer, Spain-USA, Yetzabel Arias, Soprano, Miami, USA, Jodi Penner, Soprano, Canada-USA, Yaroldy Abreu, percussionist with Chucho Valdes, Cuba, Otto Santana, jazz percussionist and leader of Otto Jazz Trio, Miami, USA, Ruly Herrera, jazz percussionist and leader of The Real Project, Isanusi Rodriguez, Classical dancer, Cuban Ballet of Miami, USA, and Niurca Marquez, dancer and choreographer.
The artist has also been invited by the Miami Guitar Orchestra for the Concierto de Aranjuez as a soloist, and by the Florida Chamber Orchestra for the Concierto Andaluz at the Miami Dade County Auditorium.
Concerts of note: Baroque and Cuban music concert, University of the Arts (Berlin, Germany), UFRR Universidade Federal de Roraima, Brazil, Grace Arts Florida, USA, Art Basel Miami, FL, USA, LnS Gallery, Miami, FL USA, Miami Dade County Auditorium, USA, Spanish Cultural Center in Miami, FL, USA, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL, USA, Adrienne Arscht Center, Miami, FL, USA, among others. Puerto is currently sponsored by the prestigious luthier Bill Glez in the development of various projects involving guitar makers such as Sakurai Kohno -classical- (Japan), José Ramírez -classical and flamenco- (Spain), Carlos Rodríguez “El Grillo” -classical-(Cuba), Bill Glez -classical and flamenco- (USA), Jorge de Zofía -flamenco-(USA, Spain) among others. With each of these creators and their works, he seeks new depths of exploration and excellence of execution.
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Karen K. said “May was wonderful!!! Music was exactly what we wanted. He dressed the part. I would HIGHLY recommend him!!”
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