Flamenco guitar player Alexander Gavilan (°1969) took up guitar training at the age of 11 with Thomas Seda in Köln. From 1990 to 1998, he accompanied the dancing classes at the Contratiempo school of flamenco in Köln (e.g. accompaniment of Andrian Galía, Fernando Galán). Furthermore, he also performed on national and international stage with numerous flamenco ensembles (among other at Filharmonie Krakow, Die Kuppel in Basel, Pole Pole Festival in Gent, Tränenpalast Berlin) and he composed the music for flamenco show of the group Amanecer.
Alexander made the theater shows Salome – Theater und Flamenco (’95) and Unter freien Himmeln (’97) and he collaborated on the CD recordings of Leyendas (’99) by the fusion group A Touch of Flamenco and Amanecer Life im Senftöpfchen (2002).
In 1998 he moved to Gent and ever since, he has been working with artists from the Belgian flamenco scene. Alexander studied flamenco guitar at the Rotterdam Conservatory with Paco Peña, Ricardo Mendeville and Hans Van Gogh and in 2004 he achieved his Bachelor of Music. With a scholarship of the Fund for stage arts he started the second fase of his education with a two-year stay in Seville. There he took classes at the Fundación Cristina Heeren de Arte Flamenco, with among others Niño de Pura, Miguel Angel Cortés and J.L. Postigo. Since September 2005 Alexander Gavilan is a teacher in flamenco guitar at the Rotterdam Conservatory.