About
Cristóbal Schulkin
Cristóbal is an eclectic guitarist with a classical background. Based in Buenos Aires, he has toured Latin America and Europe playing modern Argentine music and pieces of other living composers like Leo Brouwer, Carlo Domeniconi, Johannes Möller, Mathias Duplessy and many others. He has performed in prestigious theatres in Buenos Aires like La Usina del Arte, La Scala de San Telmo, el Museo Casa de Carlos Gardel y el Museo Histórico Nacional. He's been teaching guitar for the last 15 years working in his private studio and different institutions, as well as in the Conservatorio Superior de Música de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires "Astor Piazzolla", where he works since 2014.
He holds a Bachelor in Music in Classical Guitar degree from UNA (Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires), where he graduated studying with Javier Bravo. Cristóbal has perfected his style in Classical Guitar by taking Masterclasses with world-class figures as Leo Brouwer, Fabio Zanón, Quique Sinesi, Simone Ianarelli and Kozo tate, specializing in music influenced by different world folk musics: Argentinian music, Flamenco, and various Eastern music styles. He is also currently finishing his Teacher Certification in the "Conservatorio Superior de Música de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires Manuel de Falla".
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In 2019, he played the Argentinian premier of "Beatlerianas", which is a Leo Brouwer's arrangement of seven songs by The Beatles, for Guitar and Strings Orchestra with the Orchestra Municipal de San Martin.
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As a soloist, he has done concert tours in countries like Argentina, Uruguay, Spain and Portugal
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Taking a Masterclass with Leo Brouwer in Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2017 Leo Brouwer is arguably the most important Classical Guitar composer alive today
Cristóbal is also part of The Silly Bees Quartet, an Argentinian alternative chamber music group specialized in playing Argentinian Music. The group is composed by Federico Gurisatti (Voice), Diego Gurisatti (Viola), Cristóbal Schulkin (Guitar) and Darío Tepman (Double Bass)
Born in a family of classical pianists, Cristóbal has been in contact with music and private music studios from a young age. Since 2005, he had hundreds of guitar and music theory students. Thanks to the recent boom in remote learning that started in 2020 with the pandemic, he has students from various countries like the USA, England, France, Portugal, Sweden, India, China and Australia. He teaches guitar in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
