Jorge Caballero has accrued wide recognition as one of the most important guitarists in history, being the recipient of several international awards, and performing in recitals, chamber music and as a soloist around the world. Born into a musical family. Caballero began his guitar studies at the age of 10 at the Preparatory Division of the National Conservatory of Music in Lima, Peru. From the age of 12, he participated in several prestigious competitions, which he turned into a first prize, and as the youngest musician and the only guitarist, he received the first prize at the Walter W. Naumburg International Competition in New York. Caballero is notorious for adapting and performing masterworks originally written for piano or orchestra, among which we find Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Dvorak’s New World Symphony, Debussy’s Children’s Corner Suite to name a few. Since his first solo recital at age thirteen, Caballero has given numerous concerts throughout the world, including performances at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and the Library of Congress, and as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, New York’s Chamber Ensemble and Turkey’s Presidential Symphony. Recently, Caballero’s composition titled “O King Dreaming”received the top prize in the GuitarArt International Festival in Miami. He currently teaches at the University of Toronto in Canada, and is Honorary Professor at the National University of Music in Lima, Peru.