A great figure of the current panorama of flamenco guitar, David Leiva is well known and recognized worldwide as an outstanding teacher, with exemplary and extensive written and documented work on the flamenco guitar, aimed at fans and guitarists of all levels.

David Leiva was born in Almería but grew up in Barcelona where he currently lives. When he was ten his musical career began with music theory and classical guitar at the Conservatory of Granollers.

He has a degree in music pedagogy, classical and flamenco guitar. He currently teaches at the Conservatory of Liceu in Barcelona. Since 2008 he has created his own methodology, being admired and respected by gender specialists and guitarists worldwide. Because of his teaching experience and methodologies he achieved to be a reference in the flamenco education.

As a concert soloist, he performed at various theaters, festivals and venues of great international importance. He  performed in cities like Vienna, Munich, Sardinia, Corsica, Rome, Nimes, Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, Lleida, Girona, Andorra, Tarragona, Málaga, Granada, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Jerez, Jaén, Nijar, Mojacar, Motril, Almería , Granada, Santiago de Compostela, Valladolid, Logroño, Valencia, etc. He also received offers to perform in Japan, China, Russia, USA and Dubai. He was part of the group Índalo with which he made several national and international tours. His experience in cante (singing) and dance accompaniment got him to share the stage with great artists in cante and dance like Merche Esmeralda, Nano de Jerez, Juan Pinilla among others. He composed several dance shows like Rojo sobre Negro (Red on Black) and Combo flamenco. He formed his own band which fuses traditional flamenco (vocals, percussion, guitar and dance) with Jazz music (contrabass, sax, flute and violin). The band made several national and international tours and participations on radio and TV.

In 2012 he released his first album "Fuente Victoria", an album with nine exceptional compositions, where the guitar is the protagonist, only accompanied by a flamenco cajón.

He is associate of specialized flamenco magazines contributing articles on flamenco guitar and cante.

He made several presentations, lectures and master classes at conservatories, schools and universities in different parts of Spain and Europe, announced on radio, press and TV. For example at the cumbre de flamenco in Jerez, his presence was a success, he was interviewed on TV and radio programs. His lectures were attended by a great number of all types of participants, amateurs, professionals and even Moraíto participated in one of them, congratulating David for his educational work.

Currently, as author he has 50 publications (books and DVDs), some of them mostly successful in flamenco pedagogy. He was the first author who made a method on cante and dancing entitled "A tutorial of flamenco and its accompaniment" and "Flamenco guitar treatise of accompaniment to el cante, DVD + Book". These collections are very successful in sales and are considered to be some of the best flamenco methodologies. This success is not the only one which he obtained as author, the books "Camarón guitar tab" and "Enrique Morente guitar tab" are the first music books on some themes of these two great singers. In half a year the Camarón book became one of the best sold flamenco books of 2009. 

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