BIOGRAPHY
Born on September 14th, 1996 in Paris. He began his musical education at the age of 16 and completed his guitar studies at the Conservatório de Música de Barcelos, Portugal, in the class of Professor Francisco Gomes.
He has made regular public appearances, notably at guitar festivals and events, such as the I Festival Internacional de Guitarra de Barcelos, where he also participated in the I Festival Solidário da Orquestra do Alto Minho and participated in the Festival de Guitarra Ciutat D'Elx in Spain, where he won 2nd prize in the international competition of the same festival. He acted for the Portuguese TV station Porto Canal and gave radio interviews for Rádio Geice and Rádio Alto Minho (Portugal).
As a performer he has taken master classes with Leo Brouwer, Manuel Barrueco, Carlo Marchione, Marco Socías, Anabel Montesinos, Anders Clemens, Diego Barber, Fernando Spi, Margarita Escarpa, Francisco Bernier, Àlex Garrobé, Eduard Isaac, José Pina, Víctor Villadangos, Nacho Vidal and Pedro Rodrigues. He taught at the Arcos de Valdevez Conservatory of Music and Dance in Portugal. He was admitted to all the universities to which he had applied, notably the Conservatório Superior de Música de Vigo and the Real Conservatório Superior de Música de Madrid (Madrid Royal Conservatory).
Alex de Sousa began his bachelor's degree in guitar at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid with Juan Nieto, Teresa Folgueira and Miguel Trápaga and finished it at the Conservatori Superior de Música de les Illes Balears with renowned teachers such as Pablo Zapico for early music and the conductor Pedro Mateo Gonzalez as a classical guitar teacher, receiving several honorable mentions in the practical disciplines surrounding the instrument.
He was then accepted for his master's degree at one of the best art universities in the world, the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, with the charismatic virtuoso Eliot Fisk, who brought a whole new dimension to classical guitar playing and was also recognized worldwide for his ingenuity, innovation and for expanding the ideology of the classical guitar legacy he inherited from his legendary mentor Andrés Segovia and his two assistants Kostas Tosidis and Cecílio Pereira. He then did Erasmus at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Dűsseldorf with Alexander-Sergei Ramírez and Joaquin Clerch.
In 2023 he began his second master's degree at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Dűsseldorf with conductor Joaquin Clerch, who is considered to be one of the best classical guitar teachers in the world today.
