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Record figures

Saad has performed in concerts with orchestra more than 1000 times, a quantity that makes him the most active concert guitarist.

He has also offered more than 500 guitar recitals.

He has played the Concierto de Aranjuez in more than 900 occasions and the Fantasía para un gentilhombre in more than 300 concerts, both Joaquín Rodrigo’s works. Furthermore, he has played El Amor Brujo, from Manuel de Falla, in over 100 concerts.

On many occasions he has offered 2 or 4 concerts per night, primarily with the program of the Great Night of Spanish MusicIn the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam and the Barbican Center of London. Watch video

He has performed more than 70 times in the most important halls of Barcelona: Gran Teatre del Liceu, Palau de la Música Catalana and L’Auditori.

Rolando Saad at Palau de la Música in Barcelona. Fuat Mansurov, conductor

He has offered more than 30 concerts in the most important halls of Madrid: Teatro Real, Auditorio Nacional de Música, Teatro de la Zarzuela, Teatro Monumental and the Centro Cultural Fernando Fernán Gómez.

He has performed 7 times in the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, the most important hall of the world. He also performed 8 times in Geneva's Victoria Hall, 6 in Zurich's Tonhalle, 5 in Helsinki's Finlandia Hall, 6 in Stockholm's Berwaldhallen and Konserthus, 3 in the Philharmonie of Berlin, 7 in Sofia's Bulgarian Hall and in Parliament, 2 times in the Goldener Saal (Golden Hall) of the Musikverein in Viena and 6 in Varsovia's Philharmonie. In Spain he has been 8 times in Bilbao's Palacio Euskalduna, 6 in San Sebastian's Kursaal and 7 times in the Auditorio of Zaragoza.

He has offered more than 60 concerts in the Palau de la Música in Barcelona and 25 in the Auditorio Nacional de la Música in Madrid.

He has been under the direction of 50 conductors: Fuat MansurovAlberto LysyLord Yehudi Menuhin and Guennadi Provatorov, among them. See all

He has offered concerts in more than 40 countries: Spain, Great Britain, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Luxemburg, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Portugal, France, Italy, Switzerland, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Greece, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Argentina, Mexico, Paraguay, Honduras, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, etc.

Rolando Saad at the Concertgebouw of
Amsterdam with Fuat Mansurov

He has been the first musician to performance the Concierto de Aranjuez in most of the main European halls.

In his tours he has visited more tan 300 towns of Spain: Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Málaga, Jaén, Córdoba, Cádiz, Almería, Granada, Huelva, Badajoz, Cáceres, Salamanca, Valladolid, Burgos, León, Orense, Lugo, Coruña, Pontevedra, Santiago de Compostela, Mérida, Oviedo, Santander, Bilbao, Palencia, Segovia, Soria, Vitoria, Pamplona, San Sebastián, Zaragoza, Teruel, Huesca, Lérida, Girona, Tarragona, Castellón, Valencia, Alicante, Murcia, Albacete, Toledo, Cuenca, Ciudad Real, Ávila, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife, Las Palmas de Gran Canarias, Ceuta, Mérida, etc.

More than 12 cities in Bulgaria: Sofia, Varna, Plovdiv, Rousse, Bourgas, Pazardjik, Vidin, Vratza, Pleven, Sliven, Starazagora, Blagoevgrad, etc.

He has performed during 8 years in the Liceu of Barcelona and 4 in the Teatro Real of Madrid.

He has offered concerts with these orchestras: Click here
 

Rolando Saad at the Auditorio Nacional
de Música of Madrid