Christian Laremont was born May 6, 1969 in Caracas Venezuela. From early childhood he was deeply responsive to the sounds of both popular Venezuelan instruments (the cuatro, harp and maracas) and folkloric music (Joropo, Calypso, etc.). At the age of four he moved to the U.S. where he lived in Florida and New York. In 1987 he moved to Madrid, Spain where he started and completed his formal music studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Música "Padre Antonio Soler" (El Escorial, Spain) obtaining a B.A. in Guitar Performance (Título Superior de Guitarra) under the supervision of Jose Carlos Baños (semi-finalist in the prestigious International Guitar Contest "Francisco Tárrega") in 2002. His repertoire includes music from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Contemporary time periods. He has attended master classes with Enrique Blanco (Composition), Demetrio Ballesteros (Guitar Performance), and studied intensely over the course of six years perfecting his technique and musicianship with Domingo Carbajal (disciple of Regino Sainz de la Maza and Sergiu Celibidache). Apart from this, he has a B.A. in Media of Communication (1994) from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. Christian currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where he intends to demonstrate his personal playing style and ability as well as teaching music.The move to California is what inspired him to make a video (recorded by Brian Hallett in Madrid, July 2013) with interpretations from the likes of Luis de Milán, J.S. Bach, Manuel de Falla, Heitor Villa-Lobos and the Venezuelan Antonio Lauro.
