Emilio Villalba
“I was born in Seville at night in June 1976. I remember, when I was a kid, my parents bought me the first day of holidays on the beach, a notebook and a box of markers. I have lost most of those pictures. But what has remained in me since then is the enthusiasm for and interest in continuing drawing”.
I began my musical career with a small toy piano, when I was three or four years. Thenceforth, the curiosity and need to compose and play music have always accompanied me.
I love historical instruments, especially string ones. I have specialized throughout my career in the interpretation and study of historical instruments such as the Arab oud, Turkish saz, medieval harp, hurdy-gurdy, viola, psaltery, keyboard viola, the citole, the guiterna… Each of them has their own sound language and conveys different emotions.
As an illustrator of kid books, videogames and interactive apps, I design my own recording projects, as well as posters for events and festivals of medieval music.