John Fillmore began playing the Flamenco guitar at the age of 12 after hearing his neighbour playing a beautiful Taranta for his sick wife.
So enthralled with the music the guitarist was making, he begged his parents for a guitar.

Finally they agreed to get him one and John got started with lessons, going onto make his first public performance with a Flamenco dance troupe at the age of 14.

After studying with various guitar teachers in London, John went to Spain to study further at the Centro Flamenco in Cordoba. Being encouraged by the teachers and students there, John went on study at the Rotterdam Conservatoire for six years, becoming the first graduate teacher and performer of Flamenco guitar in the world.

He has gone on to play concerts all over the world with Flamenco companies, duos, trios, and as more over as a soloist, performing regularly at international guitar, jazz and world-music festivals.

John was finalist at the Concurso Nacional de Arte Flamenco Cordoba in 1998.

Apart from working as a concert performer and a recording artist, John is a full time Flamenco guitar tutor in Amsterdam.

John has released 5 albums to date. All which have received critical acclaimed in the international press.