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PAUL O'DETTE
Paul O'Dette is one of the most influential representative of the historically informed performance.
He is also active conducting Baroque operas. Paul O'Dette has been described as the clearest
case of genius ever to touch his instrument. (Toronto Globe and Mail) One of the most
influential figures in his field, O'Dette has helped define the technical and stylistic
standards to which twenty-first-century performers of early music aspire. Paul O'Dette
has made more than 130 recordings, receiving five Grammy nominations and numerous other
international record awards. He is a professor at Eastman School of Music and AD of the
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JOZSEF EÖTVÖS
József Eötvös graduated at the Franz Liszt College of Music in Weimar
as the student of Roland Zimmer and studied the art of composing from Franz Just.
He regularly gives concerts in several countries of the world: he has played,
among others, in Austria , the Czech Republic, Greece, the Netherlands, Poland,
Lithuania, Germany, Romania, Switzerland, Sweden, Slovakia, Lichtenstein, Japan and Singapore.
He is invited to perform both solo concerts and orchestral concertos.
He has made radio and television recordings both in his home land and abroad.
His arrangements are musical curiosities which are played on this instrument
only by him in the whole wide world. His arrangement of Bach's Goldberg Variations
is regarded by critics as the arrangement of the century. Following this success,
he produced other arrangements as well, such as Bach's lute works (Chanterelle),
Chopin's piano pieces 1 - 2 (Professional Music Press - Poland and Gendai Guitar - Japan ),
Brahms's 21 Hungarian Dances (MelBay) and J. S. Bach The Art of Fugue. |
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GUITAR4MATION
Since 2003 audiences are impressed by ingenious and tasteful transcriptions by GUITAR4MATION across all kind of genres.
Four guitar players - Martin Wesely, Martin Schwarz (both Austria), Michal Nagy (Poland) and Petr Saidl (Czech Republic) individually benefit the ensemble by placing emphasis
on different stilistic aspects.
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GUITAR DUO GRUBER & MAKLAR
Their international career began when they won first prize at the International Contest
for Guitar Duos in Montelimar/France in 1991. Numerous invitations to concerts and
festivals have taken both musicians to Italy, Spain, England, Greece, Austria, Croatia,
Poland, Turkey and even as far as Canada and Mexico where they performed at the GFA-Festival,
New York´s Manhattan School of Music and to Moscow´s Tchaikovsky-Hall.
The musical magazine “Guitar-Review” wrote about the duo´s debut in the USA:
“Their technique is spectacular, their musical understanding cannot be overstated,
their ensemble playing is outstanding and, as they proved in a magnificent
evening of music at the Manhattan School of Music, they deserve to be recognized
as one of the finest guitar duos in the world.” |
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HELMUT OESTERREICH
Several CD-publications focusing on modern music as well as coorporations with renowned composers gave
him an outstanding reputation as an interpreter for contemporary music. Beyond that for several years he is a
demanded teacher and conductor of several chamber music projects, including the JGO and the United Guitar Ensemble.
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JGO
The youth guitar orchestra of Baden-Württemberg, in short JGO, was founded in 1991 and is consisting of 25-30 young guitar players, who mostly are national-wide prize winners of renowned German youth competition "Jugend musiziert". Its wide repertoire includes original works as well as transcriptions and places emphasis on contemporary compositions, which in a large part were originally written for the JGO. Tours to Spain, Russia, Laos, China, Korea and to states in Central America, amongst others Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica as well as a four-week tour to Australia and Singapur represent peaks in the orchestra's biography. In year 1996 the JGO was part of the European youth music festival in Kopenhagen, in 2002 it took part in renowned Guitar Festival of Hannava, Cuba. The orchestra was first prize winner of first German competition for representational orchestras, as well as prize winner of fourth orchestral competition in 2006 and won a second prize at the International guitar orchestra competition in Rheine in 2007.
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TILLMANN REINBECK
Tillmann Reinbeck studied with Luis Diego Martin and Michael Hampton at the Musikhochschule in Trossingen, as well as with José Tomás in Alicante, Spain. In 2003 he completed his exam certificate with Olaf Van Gonnissen with distinction. Apart from winning international competitions he performs all over the world. He teaches at the Hochschulen of Music in Stuttgart and Trossingen. |
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JOHANNES MONNO
The combination of artistic, scientific and educational work is Johannes Monno's a central concern. His occupation with the means and the style of various epochs have generated five CD productions and various publications. In 2004 he was called to the Staatliche Hochschule of Music and Performing Arts as a professor. |
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