Guillermo González Phillips
Accomplished his higher Guitar education with Maestros Maricarmen Costero and Manuel López Ramos between 1976 and 1985; this last year he receives his college certificate. From 1978 up to 1991 he takes part in different chamber music groups: Movimiento Perpetuo (1978-1983), Cuarteto de Guitarra Manuel M. Ponce (1983-1986) and Trio A. Tansman (1987-1991). Along with such groups he performs in national and international tourrneés. In 1983 he creates the composition and improvisation workshop Banda Elástica with whom he has realesed three lp's and seven compact disks. Likewise he has achieved national and international tourneés on this project (Perú, 1989; Madrid, 1992; New York, 1994; and Norway, 2006). He has also composed music for dance, theater, short, and full length motion pictures. Under the backing of Ricardo Benet's Noticias Lejanas he was nominated for the Ariel in the category of best original music. He has also worked in an interdisciplinary manner along with Susana Frank (Theater: El Silencio de las Sirenas, 1988; Los amantes del Trapecio, 1997; La Cazuela y el Cucharón, 2000; and Penelopéa, 2005); as well with Ignacio López Tarso (El caballero de la triste figura, 2005; and Macario, 2007). In 2005 he was convened by John Zorn for the premier of Cobra in Mexico. He has developed an intense activity as a soloist in the whole of Mexico outstanding his participation several times at Festival Estatal de San Luis Potosí, Festival Internacional de Guitarra de Morelia 2002, Festival Internacional CNA 2003, 2011, and Festival Internacional de Guitarra Pachuca 2010.