Frank Bungarten

Frank Bungarten (born 1958 in Cologne) is a German guitarist.

Life

Under the influence of rock music of the 60's he started about 10 years of playing guitar. Among his first teachers was temporarily living in the Rhineland Paraguayan virtuoso Carlos Baez, who introduced him early with South American music. He has 13 years old, played as a guitarist in a band formed by his high school teachers, the jazz standards His first appearances. The contact for Jazz led him to self-taught learning tenor and soprano saxophone. Despite his later career as a classical musician, he referred towering influence always John Coltrane as his. Bungarten began studying at the Musikhochschule Köln before graduation. After musical training with Karl -Heinz Boettner and Hubert Käppel and a master class with Oscar Ghiglia in Italy he withdrew to form in its own way the basics of his game. In addition to the guitar studies as a saxophonist he had his group " Extempore " with freely improvised music numerous engagements in radio productions, festivals and jazz clubs. After a second place at the Federal University Competition 1981 he joined in the same year internationally. Andrés Segovia awarded him the first prize at the International Guitar Competition of Granada, combined with a tour of Spain. Immediately afterwards, was the completion of studies with distinction and the beginning of an activity as a university teacher. To date, he played as a soloist in over 40 countries around the world, including commissioned by the Goethe Institute. He played at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Art and Congress Centre Lucerne, Munich Gasteig, the Salzburg Festival, Schwetzingen Festival, the Schleswig -Holstein Music Festival, MDR Music Summer, the Lower Saxony Music Festival and Guitar Festival from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, from Dublin to Havana. His concert and CD 's programs are to complete and extent of pianistic models. Likewise, his coined by Ernst and attention to detail interpretive attitude.

In 1997 he was awarded the prize of the "German Record Critics' Award " and two times, in 2005 and 2011, the "Echo Klassik" in the category " Instrumentalist of the Year ".

Teaching

Bungarten earned as a teenager his pocket money with guitar lessons, taught alike classmates and adults for seven years and at the Municipal School of Music Frechen. In 1981, he acted as assistant to his teacher Hubert Käppel at the Cologne Musikhochschule and from 1982 at the Academy of Music, Drama and Media Hanover, where he was a professor in charge of a international class today. From 1989 to 2010 he was also a professor at the University of Lucerne. He gave over a hundred seminars and master classes worldwide. His uncompromising approach to teaching is true in the guitar world as well as glowing approval rejection. The photographer Thomas Struth devoted Bungarten 's classroom work a introduced in 2005 in Bern and New York video project.

Discography (selection)

  • J. S. Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo, Transcriptions for Guitar, 2 CDs, MDG 305 1028-2
  • Fernando Sor: Selected Studies, CD, MDG L3390
  • Castelnuovo- Tedesco: 24 Caprichos de Goya op.195, 2 CDs, MDG 3050725-2
  • " Cancion y Danza ", CD, MDG 305 1246-2
  • Heitor Villa -Lobos: "Complete Works for Solo Guitar " CD, MDG
  • Mauro Giuliani: Works for Flute and Guitar Dear Andrea Knecht, Flute, CD, MDG
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