About

Bruno Guedea is an award-winning Mexican/New Zealand classical guitarist and educator whose work bridges performance, pedagogy, and research. His practice is shaped by a cross-cultural perspective, drawing on his musical formation and professional activity across Mexico, New Zealand, and the United States. Alongside an active performance life, he is committed to teaching and academic inquiry as integral parts of a single musical practice.

As a performer, Guedea has appeared in solo, orchestral, and collaborative contexts across New Zealand, Mexico, and the United States. His repertoire spans from Renaissance to contemporary music, with particular interest in twentieth-century and underrepresented guitar repertoire. He regularly presents programmes that combine established works with lesser-known composers and new perspectives on canonical pieces.

Guedea is an experienced educator who has designed and taught university-level courses for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as private instruction and community-based music programmes. His teaching emphasises technical efficiency, musical understanding, and transferable learning strategies, helping students develop both practical skills and long-term independence as musicians.

Guedea’s scholarly work focuses on performance-related research, with particular emphasis on memorisation, practice strategies, and interpretive decision-making in complex repertoire. Alongside this work, he maintains a strong interest in the cultural and historical contexts that shape musical meaning, including the literary innovations of Spain’s Generation of 1927 and their parallels in twentieth-century musical thought. His research also engages with questions of music and politics in Mexican repertoire, examining how cultural identity, historical context, and artistic expression intersect in performance and pedagogy.

Guedea holds degrees from the Instituto Universitario de Bellas Artes of Colima, the New Zealand School of Music, and the Eastman School of Music of New York where he is currently a doctoral candidate.