Gerhard Reichenbach – guitar, Germany

Gerhard Reichenbach-guitar

Gerhard Reichenbach is one of the leading german classical guitarists. He played his solo debut recital in 1980 in Düsseldorf (Germany) and his international debut in 1990 at the Volos Guitar Festival (Greece). Since then for over 40 years he is performing concerts as a soloist and together with orchestras being invited to many festivals as well as to concert halls like the Berliner Philharmonie or the International House of Music in Moscow. Gerhard is providing a large solistic repertoire of more than 35 different programmes and a number of guitar concertos. His transcriptions of keyboard music by Scarlatti and especially Bach received among experts and in magazines excellent reviews which put him into the first line of Bach interpreters on the guitar.

During the last decades he also premiered a number of contemporary compositions, mostly written for him such as Rossen Balkanski’s Balkanska Sonata, the 12 Concert studies op.48 by Buck Wolters or the Cinq impasses by Atanas Ourkouzounov. Besides all other normal activities in a musical career such as teaching, judging in competitions or recording he also presented a growing number of musical editions of guitar works.Another important field in his activities is organizing guitar events like concerts, competitions or festivals. He was artistic director of the Vissani Guitar Festival in Greece and the Bergisches Gitarrenfestival in Remscheid (Germany) and he is presently artistic director of the International Guitar Festival Wuppertal (Germany) and the Meisterkurs Michaelbeuern (Austria). He was professor at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Weimar, the State Conservatory in Thessaloniki (Greece) and since 2009 he is holding a position as a Professor at the Cologne Music University. A growing number of his students are succesful artists, teachers or professors worldwide. Gerhard Reichenbach is playing on instruments by Thomas Humphrey (Millenium Model) and Thomas Merz.

                Programme:

Johann Kaspar Mertz:                                    An die Entfernte  (To my distant one)

Mauro Giuliani:                                               Sonata Eroica op. 150

                                                                            Allegro maestoso

Johann Kaspar Mertz:                                   Fantasie Hongroise

Johann Sebastian Bach                                 Partita E-flat Major, BWV 825

(after the first piano partita)

Präludium-Allemande-Corrente-Sarabande-                                

                                                                           Menuett 1&2-Gigue    

–intermission-

Isaac Albeniz:                                                   Cadiz

Capriccio catalán

Torre bermeja

Frederico Moreno-Torroba                          from Piezas caracteristicas:

                                                                           Preambulo

                                                                           May Song 

                                                                           Oliveiras

Joaquin Rodrigo                                            Tres piezas espanolas

Fandango

                                                                          Passacaglia   

                                                                          Zapateado