{"id":379,"date":"2016-08-30T08:58:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T08:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/licariguitars.com\/?page_id=379\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:31:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:31:03","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/licariguitars.com\/en\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Valerio Licari was born in Rome, Italy, in 1981.\u00a0From 1994 to 1998 he studied classical guitar with M\u00b0 Arnaldo Rotella. In 1999 he received his high school diploma in Sciences and built his first electric guitar.<\/p>

In the year 2000 he enrolled at the faculty of Humanities at \u201cTor Vergata\u201d University, Rome. He chose a degree in \u201cMusical Arts and Performance\u201d, and took courses in sound analysis and synthesis.<\/p>

From 2000 to 2004 he specialized in the American repertoire of delta-blues and ragtime, whilst studying acoustic guitar and fingerpicking under\u00a0M\u00b0 Francis H. Koerber.<\/p>

In 2005, at Il Istituto Italiano per l\u2019Africa e l\u2019Oriente (the Italian Institute for Africa and the East), he completed the cataloguing of, and organological research into, their photographic, and musical instruments collections respectively. Concurrently,\u00a0he began studying the violin with M\u00b0 Gabriele Benigni.\u00a0In 2006, he completed his BA in ethnomusicology with honors. That\u00a0same year, in Cremona, Italy, he enrolled in the International School of Violin Making\u00a0\u201cAntonio Stradivari\u201d (I.P.I.A.L.L).<\/p>

In 2010, he began his collaboration with the magazine \u201cLiuteria, musica, cultura\u201d and published an article on\u00a0the musical instruments of the Horn of Africa. That year, he also took on an internship in bow making with M\u00b0 Paolo Pamiro.\u00a0In 2011 he received his diploma at the I.P.I.A.L.L, under supervision of M\u00b0 Ernesto Vaia.<\/p>

In 2012, he worked for six months as guitar wood production manager at Tonewood International\u00a0in Cremona, Italy. That\u00a0September, he moved to Malaga, Spain, for a six-month apprenticeship with classical guitar maker\u00a0M\u00b0 Daniele Chiesa. It was then he decided to stay in Spain definitively, in order to study deeper its traditional methods in classical and flamenco guitar making. He eventually set up his own workshop\u00a0in Granada, the city where he currently works and lives.<\/p>

As of 2015, the Town Hall of Granada has ceded Licari a workshop in the Craft Center of the Albayzin, in recognition of his traditional approach to handcrafted lutherie.<\/p>

At the end of 2019 he decided to end the experience in Spain. He returned permanently to Italy and opened his own workshop in Turin.<\/p>

In 2021, alongside his workshop activity, he began to teach guitar making at the Piedmontese Lutherie Academy \u201cSan Filippo\u201d in Turin.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Valerio Licari was born in Rome, Italy, in 1981.\u00a0From 1994 to 1998 he studied classical guitar with M\u00b0 Arnaldo Rotella. In 1999 he received his high school diploma in Sciences and built his first electric guitar. In the year 2000 he enrolled at the faculty of Humanities at \u201cTor Vergata\u201d University, Rome. 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