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Malmoe International Guitar Festival 2004

Göran Söllscher, Sweden

"The guitar and the folkmusic"

Göran Söllscher started his career as a guitar player by winning the first prize at the competition "Concours Internationale de Guitare" in Paris, France, 1978. He has performed worldwide, with solo recitals and as soloist with several famous orchestras. Söllscher made his record debut for Deutsche Grammophon 1979. He has so far recorded sixteen solo albums and all of them have received excellent reviews and they have achieved high sales rates. His album "Paganini for Two", with the violonist Gil Shaham, was one of the ten best selling albums of classical music in USA 1993. Göran Söllschers repertoire is exceptionally wide, from renaissance music to well known guitar concerts and contemporary music. He has close contacts with several Scandinavian composers. He is professor of guitar playing in Malmö, Sweden.

Duo Cuenca, Spain

Francisco Cuenca

José Manuel Cuenca

Fransisco Cuenca and José Cuenca form an odd and magnificent duo for guitar and piano. These spanish brothers conceive their musical university degree in Cordoba.Fransico Cuenca is an prominent sologuitarist and have appeared with Symphony Orchestra of the Spanish National Television, London Concerting Vivaldi Orchestra and Reina Sofia Chamber Orchestra. As an duo they have tour all over the world and appeared i both television and radio.

Flamenco Passion, Denmark

Poul Jacek Knudsen, guitar
Anders Pedersan, percussion
Nicolai Land, kontrabas
with guestartist: Pepita Rodhe, song and dance

Flamenco Passion is an danish flamencotrio who released their first Cd ("Flamenco Passion" Cope records copecd083). The trio plays modern flamenco with Poul Knudsens virtuosa guitar as an soloinstrument. At the concert at Jeriko the group will have Pepita Rodhe as a guest. Pepita Rodhe is an great flamencopersonality and will spice the concert with her energetic song and dance.

Augostin Wiedemann, Germany

"From Bach to Monk"

The guitarist Augustin Wiedemann, a resident of Munich, completed Eliot Fisk´s master classes at the Salzburg Mozarteum in 1995 with a major concert diploma, awarded “with distinction”. He was the winner of the 6th International Guitar Competition held in Havanna, Cuba. At this internationally famous competition, whose jury members included, among others, Leo Brouwer and Alvaro Pierri, he was also awarded four special prizes (including prizes for the best interpretation of Spanish music and for the best interpretation of Cuban music played by a foreigner). In the same year he was honored with the first „Cultural Award for young artists“ by the city of Deggendorf.. From 1995 to 2000 he was teaching guitar at the University of Passau. Since the beginning of the 2001 summer semester Augustin Wiedemann works as the assistant of Eliot Fisk at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Together with the world renown Maestro Fisk he teaches a class of as many as 20 students from 12 nations, many of them already prize-winners at national and international competitions.

Wiedemann appeared as a soloist in the USA, Russia, Cuba, Portugal, Spain, Czech Republic, Austria and Germany as well as with diverse orchestras. With the “Members of the Munich Philharmonic” he performed the “Concierto de Aranjuez” . His chamber music partners include the conductor of the Kyoto symphony Orchestra Uwe Mund (piano), Anja Lechner (cello, member of the “Rosamunde String Quartet), Bavat Marom (mezzosoprano) and Johannes Erkes (viola). Alongside his classical concerts, Augustin Wiedemann also plays in the crossover-project “Classic meets Soul” with jazz singer and guitarist Michael “Kosho” Koschorreck (member of Germany´s most successful Hip Hop/Rock band “Söhne Mannheims”) In his solo recitals Augustin Wiedemann combines music from the masters of the Baroque and the Classical era with compositions of totally different styles like “Round midnight” from Thelonius Monk and the Bossa Nova hymn “Felicidade” by Antonio Jobim. He also includes percussion, tapping and slap techniques in his performances. The great French guitarist and composer Roland Dyens called him “simply a complete and moving artist”.

Ana Vidovic, Croatia

Ana Vidovic is a bright young talent of formidable gifts destined for a major international career. Though barely twenty three years of age, she has already won an impressive number of prizes and international competitions all over the world.Those include first prizes in the Albert Augustine International Competition in Bath England, the Fernando Sor competition in Rome, Italy and the Francisco Tarrega competition in Benicasim, Spain. Other top prizes include the Eurovision Competition for Young Artiststhe Mauro Giuliani competition in Italy, the Printemps de la Guitare in Belgium and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York. Equally impressive is the fact that she has already recorded five CDs, one of them for the Naxos label and that she has already concertized in some twenty countries throughout the world. She has performed in cities such as London, Paris, Vienna, Salzburg, Rome, Budapest, Warsaw, Tel Aviv, Oslo, Copenhagen, Toronto, Baltimore, San Francisco, Houston, Austin, Dallas and St.Louis. In her native Croatia she has performed with the Zagreb Soloists and the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra and with Symphony Orchestra of the Croatian Radio and Televisionas well as having been featured in three television documentaries by the eminent Croatian film director Petar KreIja. Ana began playing the guitar at the early age of five and at thirteen she was the youngest student ever to enter the Musical Academy in Zagreb, where she studied with Professor Istvan Romer. Currently she is attending the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, MD, where she is further refining her remarkable gifts under the tutelage of world renown guitarist Manuel Barrueco.

Silesian Guitar Octet, Poland

The Silesian Guitar Octet was formed in 2001. It is composed by professors, graduates and students of Academy of Music in Katowice. Tomasz Spalinski - professor at the Institute of Music (branch of the University of Silesia in Cieszyn). He was a bursar of the Spanish Government (1992-1993). Jacek Plosa - student at the Academy of Music in Katowice, taught by professor Franciszek Wieczorek. He is a laureat at national guitar competitions (Cieszyn, Koszalin, Krynica, Kielce).Franciszek Wieczorek - professor at the Academy of Music in Katowice. He is an initiator as well as the leader of Silesian Guitar Octet. He is also a publisher and active organizer of music life (Artistic Director of the International Festival in Zory). Katarina Wieczorek - teacher at Second Grade Music School in Katowice. Together with her husband F. Wieczorek she is a manager of the Private Concert Agency MODRAN (she is also Artistic Director of the International Festival in Zory).Mariusz Bury - graduated from the Academy of Music in Katowice. He is a laureat at guitar competition in Sanok. Jan Kudelka - student at the Secondary Music School in Katowice, taught by professor Franciszek Wieczorek. He is a laureat at national and international guitar competitions (Volos - Greece, Uzgorod – Ukraine, Gdansk, Mrzezyno, Cieszyn). Piotr Kudelka - student at the Academy of Music in Katowice, taught by professor Marek Nosal. He is a laureat at guitar competition (Sanok, Cieszyn, Krynica, Gdansk). Grzegorz Szymiec - graduated from the Academy of Music in Katowice. He is a laureat at many national competitions (Cieszyn, Zory, Koszalin, Kielce).