The RomeroS
Guitar

The legendary Celedonio Romero, with his sons Celin, Pepe and Angel, founded the internationally renowned ensemble known to millions as "The Royal Family of the Guitar." With the introduction of Celin's son, Celino, into the quartet in 1990, and Angel's son, Lito, joining in 1996, The Romeros encompass three generations of concert artists. To have so many virtuosi of the same instrument in one family is unique in the world of musical performance, and in the realm of the classical guitar it is absolutely without precedent.

A veritable institution in the world of classical music, the quartet has dazzled countless audiences and won the raves of reviewers worldwide. Celedonio Romero, founder and creator of The Romeros guitar dynasty, died on May 8, 1996 in San Diego, California. As the family says, "the spirit of the quartet is him; all our concerts now will be to pay homage to him." His sons and grandsons continue Celedonio's legacy.

Celedonio Romero was a renowned soloist in Spain. As each of his sons reached the age of two or three, they began learning the guitar from their father. In 1957, the family immigrated to the United States where "The Romeros" walked onto the world stage as its first guitar quartet while the boys were still in their teens. Since then The Romeros have given hundreds of concerts all over the world and have consistently dazzled audiences everywhere and have inspired enthusiastic praise from critics coast to coast.

The sterling reputation of The Romeros has been continually confirmed by repeated appearances with virtually every major symphony orchestra in the United States. The Romeros are extremely popular with college audiences and make regular appearances on university music series throughout the country as well as on the fine arts series nationwide. In New York they have appeared at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, the Cloisters in upper Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park, the Tisch Center and on the distinguished Artists Series at Rockefeller University. Additionally, they regularly tour throughout Europe and the Far East.

For more than 40 years three generations of Romeros have inspired composers to enrich the repertoire of guitar quartet with orchestra, which includes works by such distinguished composers as Joaquín Rodrigo, Federico Moreno Torroba, Morton Gould, Francisco de Madina, Lorenzo Palomo and others. Television fans have seen and heard The Romeros many times on television among them, The Tonight Show and the Today show, on PBS specials and PBS's telecast of Evening at the Boston Pops with The Romeros performing Vivaldi and Rodrigo, the KPBS/PBS biographical documentary “Los Romeros: The Royal Family of the Guitar” and the NDR documentary film “Los Romeros: Die Gitarren-Dynastie”.

In the words of Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo, "The Romeros have developed the technique of the guitar by making what is difficult to be easy. They are, without a doubt, the grand masters of the guitar."

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