Brazilian guitarist Fabio Zanon Plays Balada para Martin Fierro (Aire Sureño) by Argentine composer Ariel Ramirez (1921–2010). This comes from the amazing GuitarCoop and their fantastic YouTube Channel. On this GuitarCoop page Zanon says of this work: “I first heard the Balada by Ariel Ramírez, soundtrack of the movie Martín Fierro, in an informal recording of the Argentine teacher Monina Távora; here is the homage to a unique way of playing one cannot reproduce today. This could also be said in honour of virtuoso Alírio Diaz, who died in 2016, a gentleman who was the engine of Venezuelan guitar in the last century.”

A Man Who Is a Musician Who Plays Guitar: Fabio Zanon

“Guitar is only a small part of my musical experience,” says Fabio Zanon, who has been playing since he was nine. “And music is only a small part of what life is and what life means. Everything gets mixed together.”

Most people know Fabio Zanon as the Brazilian guitarist who, in 1996, won two of the most prestigious competitions within a few weeks of each other: the GFA International Competition and the Francisco Tarrega International Competition. He’s since become one of the busiest guitarists on the circuit today, with a schedule that bounces him around the globe to Argentina, United States, Australia, Brazil, and various other international locales. But Zanon is much more than a virtuoso guitarist. He’s a philosopher. He’s a reader. A writer. A conductor. A teacher, a historian, an artist, a naturalist. He’s a sophisticated intellectual who believes that knowledge is never a dangerous thing.

“There’s a certain inner balance that only shows if you’re overall balanced,” Zanon says. “I try to become one with music as much as I can.”