About Your Guitar Teacher
Learn More About Me: Anisa Angarola
Anisa Angarola graduated from University of Southern California with Bachelor and Master
degrees in music. She studied many years with Pepe Romero as well as Celedonio, Celin, and
Angel Romero.
She has concertized with the Romeros Quartet and in duo with Angel Romero. Her studies
with luminaries of the classical guitar world include composers Joaquin Rodrigo, Federico
Moreno Torroba, and guitarists Romero family, Christopher Parkening, Andres Segovia. One of twelve
guitarists selected nationwide, Anisa performed in Segovia’s historic 1980 masterclasses held at the University of Southern California.
With guidance from Maestro Pepe Romero in 1979, Anisa, Bill Kanengiser, John Dearman, and Scott Tennant, formed the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, recording and performing to international acclaim. The quartet performed concerts throughout the globe including London’s Wigmore Hall, Hong Kong Arts Festival, International Cervantino Festival, New York’s Carnegie Hall, Teatro Nacional in Madrid, Zurich Tonhalle and Belles Artes in Mexico City, to name a few. After ten years Anisa then formed the Angarola Guitar Quartet to commission works composed specifically for the medium of guitar quartet. Works by Lloyd Rodgers and Michael Bayer were premiered in Germany and later in the United States.
In Celtic music she has performed and recorded with Irish legends Seamus Connolly, ten times
All-Ireland fiddler, legendary piper Paddy Keenan, and percussionist Tommy Hayes.
In 2022 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Guitar Foundation of America.
Her recordings include:
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet premiere recording
El Amor Brujo with LAGQ
Pastorale with flutist Valarie King
The Music of Giuliani with flutist Valarie King
Dargason Music (Celtic music with Joemy Wilson and ensemble) nine recordings
Irish Airs and Dances (Dargason Music/SONY)
Puertas de Madrid - premiere recording of Puertas by F.M. Torroba
Birdwatcher Hill traditional /original Celtic
Notes from My Mind -Seamus Connolly, fiddle
Anisa also composed the score for The Holy Eucharist, a feature length documentary filmed in
Israel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIuDay7t0wA). She has also composed for choir and orchestra.
“Music is the most alluring and powerful art form of all. The factor of time as it unfolds through
music encompasses every mood, every emotion in the heart of the listener. And the guitar is its
beautiful handmaiden"
Soon available for the first time as a digital download, the 1983 premiere recording of the Los
Angeles Guitar Quartet with the original players.