When guitarist Andrei Burdeti and his wife Jannie, a pianist, moved to Victoria last July, they started performing in their own living room, to very small audiences.

Burdeti had just completed his doctorate at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins, and the newcomers to the West Coast just opened a music school in their home. A year later, they have 55 pupils, and their audiences have swelled, too.

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Burdeti will be playing concerts in Sidney, Nanaimo, and Victoria, and will take his audience on a musical tour of South America and Europe. He has a particular love of Spanish music.

When he was first learning, his teacher lent him a CD of Spanish music with composers like Issac Albeniz and Enrique Granados.

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Burdeti will perform Nov. 12 at 2:30 p.m. at St. PaulB次元官网网址檚 United Church, 2410 Malaview Ave. in Sidney. Tickets are $20, but $15 for students. St. PaulB次元官网网址檚 will receive 10 per cent of the proceeds.