As with most guitarists, during my early development I faced a pivotal choice: commit to a single genre and its stylistic lineage – setting the course for deep specialisation – or pursue multiple traditions, favouring breadth over depth. My guitar journey has always reflected the latter, not through strategy but through a disposition toward travelling different musical roads and an enduring curiosity.
In the same way that some people feel most at home in mountains, by the sea, or in cities, I have always been drawn to inhabiting different musical environments – each offering distinct musical and technical opportunities, challenges, and ways of thinking about the instrument.
Moving between genres involves negotiating competing priorities and inevitably disperses focused specialisation in any single style. Nevetheless, it enables to gather a wide constellation of insights and to connect with varied musical domains. This versatility has shaped the range of my professional activity and my cross-cultural musical identity.
By way of analogy, this guitar approach can be understood by the image of a decathlete, who by combining multiple approaches embodyies expertise across different disciplines rather than excelling in one specialisation. Thus, my guitar approach is not defined by mastery of a single genre, but by the flexibility to shift across a range of them – cultivating versatility as a form of mastery in its own right.
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One of the venues I played, photographed during setup.