<p>Peruvian guitarist and composer Ciro Hurtado will be in concert Sept. 9, at the Astoria Arts and Movement Center. Submitted photo</p>

ASTORIA – Guitar virtuoso and composer Ciro Hurtado will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, at the Astoria Arts and Movement Center, located at 11th Street and Harrison Avenue. Tickets are $10 at the door.

Hurtado is from Perú, and has been actively performing since the 1970s. His early musical career started during his high school years in Lima, Perú, performing in music festivals, theater recitals, weddings, birthdays and even funerals. At this time, Lima was experiencing a revival of traditional music, while the radio airwaves were saturated with rock and roll. These two forces are the major influences in his musical style.

Arriving in the United States in 1975, Hurtado studied guitar with private teachers and at the Guitar Institute of Technology. Later he joined Strunz and Farah for a few years, performing at the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Vancouver Folk Festival in Canada, Havana Classical Guitar Festival in Cuba, the Kennedy Center and a tour of Perú.

Hurtado is one of the founding members and currently the musical director of the group Huayucaltia. He has toured extensively in the United States and Perú with them, opening shows for artists such as Jackson Browne, Sting, Holly Near and Carlos Vives. He has recorded and co-produced seven albums with Huayucaltia and as a solo artist he has produced and recorded six CDs. He also has been awarded the prestigious 2001/2005 Durfee Master Musician Fellowship.

He has scored and participated musically in various feature films and documentaries such as “Baraka,” “Dead Women in Lingerie,” “Max is Missing,” “Hope Street,” “Monsters,” “Peru: The Royal Tour, ” “From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks,” and at the request of Ry Cooder did a short appearance in Walter Hill’s “Extreme Prejudice.”

Hurtado’s guitar work ranges from the traditional Latin American genres to sophisticated fusion Latin-Jazz idioms. His fine command of the instrument borrows from the classical techniques as well as alternate plectrum picking for high intensity solos. Passion, a high melodic sensibility and musical vision are the qualities attributed to his playing. His compositions range from popular lyrical songs to sophisticated intricate classical style works. His pieces evoke motifs, landscapes and exciting elements of South American styles and rhythms, placing him among a select generation of Latin American composers. A fine storyteller, he will also share tales from Peruvian folklore at the concert.