Mario Diaz & David Tutmark @ Burnt Bridge Cellars

• Mario Diaz, guitar
• David Tutmark, guitar

Join us for a magical eveing of music and wine at Burnt Bridge cellars! This concert will feature Siempre La Guitarra Artistic Director David Tutmark and Portland based guitarist Mario Diaz.

About Siempre La Guitarra

Siempre La Guitarra is a new classical music concert series presented by David Tutmark and Oregon Guitar Studio. David was inspired by his love of the guitar and classical music to create the Siempre La Guitarra concert series here in the Pacific Northwest. Our mission is to bring great guitar players from all over the world into our local guitar community, as well as create performance opportunities for guitarists from the region.

Siempre La Guitarra also aims to provide educational opportunities with the featured artists. We will focus on providing the best possible experience for visiting artists as well as the audience. With these values in mind, we hope to continue building the Portland area as a viable destination for concert guitarists and contribute to the guitar community here in the Northwest.

About Mario Diaz, guitar

Mario Díaz is a guitarist, singer, audio engineer, and educator whose musical activities have taken him across the U.S. and South America. A member of the Oregon Guitar Quartet, he has also performed with Portland Opera, 45th Parallel, Fear No Music and Third Angle New Music. He is a faculty member at Portland State University and Portland Community College, Director of the PSU Guitar Series, and head of the guitar program at Young Musicians & Artists. Mario also maintains a private teaching studio in Portland and serves as a clinician and adjudicator across the region.

Díaz's work as a soloist and collaborator crosses over into a wide range of genres and styles, from classical to rock. He has participated in three tours and two Idaho residencies with the Dave Eggar Band and has recorded with Pink Martini, the von Trapps, and Martin Zarzar. During his time at Allegro Media Group, Mario engineered and mastered over 300 recordings. In addition to teaching in the guitar program at PSU, he is a faculty member in the university's groundbreaking Sonic Arts and Music Production program.

Mario holds degrees from San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Portland State University, where he studied with composer/guitarists Bryan Johanson and Sergio Assad. When not making music, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two children.

About David Tutmark, guitar

Guitarist David Tutmark maintains a busy schedule in the Pacific Northwest as well as performing abroad. After earning a Bachelor's degree in classical guitar performance from PSU, David began a successful performance career, giving over 350 concerts between 2012–2019. David has toured extensively as a soloist as well as a member of an international guitar duo, performing in Chile, Mexico, Italy, and across the United States. In 2018 he did an extensive solo tour of Chile as part of the Entrecuerdas guitar festival. He has performed for the US consulate in Pakistan as well at Pakistan's premier music festival Lahooti Melo, for an audience of 20,000. In 2019, Mr. Tutmark was invited to perform at the prestigious international guitar festival "Cuerdas Al Aire” in Lima, Peru. David is also on faculty at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City Oregon where he is the professor of classical guitar. Throughout 2019, Mr. Tutmark worked closely with a Portland Oregon based composer to create a new concerto for guitar and orchestra, which David premiered in 2022. In 2018 David's passion for the guitar led him to create a new classical guitar concert series in Portland Oregon called "Siempre La Guitarra" which features incredible guitarists from all over the world. Whether for audiences large or small David is known for his visceral yet polished style of playing, and consistently delivers captivating performances of traditional and contemporary classical guitar.