Anatol Rivero is a classical guitarist, composer and producer working in improvised and avant-garde music. An eclectic musician with a broad background in classical music, jazz, sound art, instrument making and DIY electronics, Anatol creates connections between his multifaceted practices to shape his own personal voice on the classical guitar. He performs on guitars and other instruments of his own design and construction.

An experienced performer, Anatol has published eight albums ranging from drone music and extended electric guitar works to solo classical guitar. He has also released three EP’s under the moniker Towards Green.

“the work of an alchemist, that gives us small portions of emotions” – Spontaneous Music Tribune (Poland)

“improvisation within the classical guitar repertoire… the outcome is very interesting, fluent and natural, hypnotic… beautiful” – Universos Paralelos Podcast (Spain)

“constructing pastoral pieces accented by precious bits of glitch and acoustic guitar melodies” – XLR8R (USA)

“Beautiful experimental guitar music that suggests a meeting between Durutti Column or Mark McGuire” – Afterpop (Mexico)

“leftfield guitarist who samples field recordings and plays over beats of electronica to create lush cinematic soundtracks” – DJMag (UK)

He studied jazz and classical music at Salamanca’s Music Conservatory, Goldsmiths College in London, the Music, Technology and Innovation Centre in Leicester and The New School in New York. His research areas are: Improvisation, post-classical-guitar, and the adaptation of Bach’s keyboard music to the guitar.

A guitar professor at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid from 2021 to 2024, he currently teaches at the Escuela Municipal de Música Antón García Abril in Torrelodones (Madrid).