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Antonello Lixi is an eclectic artist, able to interpret works of various style and age, by restoring the original character of each one of them, thanks to an interpretation philologically rigorous and at the same time rich in imagination. For these reasons his repertory extends from the Renaissance to contemporary music, from Baroque to Classicisme, up to popular music.

Born in San Gavino Monreale, a little village in the south of Sardinia, in Italy, he begins studying classical guitar at 11 years old, under the direction of his cousin Marco and of his uncle Celio Meloni, well-known sardinian guitarist, who offers him his first guitar.

He is invited very young to take part in "Emilio Pujol" Guitar Trio, with which he gives concerts until 1990.

From 1986 he yearly takes part in Arthez-de-Béarn's International Guitar Stage (France), where he has the opportunity of deepening the study of old music with Javier Hinojosa, of classical and Spanish music with J. Francisco Ortiz and of Latin-American music with the great guitarist and composer Jorge Cardoso. The meeting with this last one marks for ever his musical course.

Under the direction of the same Cardoso and Javier Hinojosa, he improves his knowledge on interpretation of Renaissance's and baroc music, while working directly on original manuscripts, treaties and instruments.

Accustomed to international stages, he wins, in July 1989, the 1st Price of the International Concourse of Interpretation in Arthéz-of-Béarn and is invited the following year to give a concert at the "Caubin's Chapel".

After obtaining the Superior Guitar's Diploma in the Academy of Music State of Cagliari (Italy), he devotes himself during many years to an intense teaching activity in Sardinia, aiming at diffusing guitar to young people.

During academic year 97/98 he obtains a purse from the Ministries for the Foreign Affairs of Italy and Spain, to carry out with the National Library of Madrid a search on the analogies between Spanish old music and popular music of Sardinia.

In 1998 he leaves Italy to settle in France, where he works as classical guitar professor in several music schools for account of the CDMC (the Departmental Council for the Music and the Culture of Haut-Rhin).

Parallel to teaching activity, he develops his talent of concert performer by taking part as a soloist in important festivals of various Countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Mexico, Peru, Greece, Poland, Turkey, Morocco, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, France, Italy, ...), by always getting excellent critics.

He is the founder and Artistic Director of the International Guitar Festival "Grandi Chitarristi dal Mondo" (Great Guitarists from the World) in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy), annual appointment carried out in collaboration with SHANNARA Society and the Town Council of Cagliari. At the same time, he is Artistic Director of Guitar Meetings in Rixheim (France), where alsacien people can appreciate unquestionable names among the most important of guitar world.

In february 2004 he wins national competitive exam (CNFPT)to teach in french conservatories and in october of the same year he takes part to the opening of the first guitar desk of classical guitar in the conservatory of Saint-Louis, where he actually teachs.

Finally, he makes all revisions of Cardoso’s compositions for several editions, as “Les Productions d’Oz” from Canada.

Photos by Guy Buchheit & Giorgio Cogoni