Tilman Hoppstock

Tilman Hoppstock (* 1961 in Darmstadt) is a German concert guitarist.

He studied both guitar and cello in Darmstadt and Cologne. Since that time, he undertook extensive concert tours have taken him to over 40 countries. A wider audience, he was known by more than 20 CD recordings. In addition to his solo career, he frequently appears as a chamber musician in various ensembles, including with the tenor Christoph Prégardien with which he was awarded the German Record Critics' Award in 1999. For concerts, records and television, he worked among others with the Rubio String Quartet, pianist Alexis Weissenberg, the guitar duo Gruber & Maklar and Baroque cellist Rainer Zipperling together.

He accepted invitations to music festivals in Europe and overseas and has been a guest lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music in London, at the Manhattan School of Music in New York and at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

In 1994, Tilman Hoppstock the PRIM music publisher that has so far brought out over 100 editions for guitar. The published by the same publisher musicological note issue of the lute works of Johann Sebastian Bach is now regarded as a standard work for guitarists. 2009 appeared the first volume of a three-volume book edition about the lute works of Bach from the perspective of the guitarist, Vol 1, Suites, BWV 995 & 996 Great attention was his 2006 published by Schott Urtext edition of the works of Mexican composer Manuel María Ponce ( 1882-1948 ).

Hoppstock taught from 1985 to 2007 at the Musikhochschule in Mainz and since 1988 has been a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Darmstadt. From 2003 to 2005 he was a visiting professor at the University in Piteå (Sweden).

In 2013 he received the Darmstadt Music Prize.

Reviews

• Hoppstock is an exceptional player, with a fine sense of style and unfailing sensitivity, and a technician of the first water; his tone is refined and beautifully nuanced, his delivery is clean and sure even in the passages where the utmost dexterity is called for, and his command of Varied articulation is admirable - Gramophone (2/ 1998)

• The delicate sounds of the instrument could Tilman Hoppstock create wonderful and captivating culture and sensitivity, and Christoph Prégardien created this incredibly touching moods through magic and masterful pianissimo. Accomplished simply get the songs of Schubert, which were set up as all the songs of the program by Tilman Hoppstock even for the guitar. - Anna Mika (September 11, 2005 New Voaralberger daily newspaper, about a concert during the composer Schubert Schwarzenberg )

• In this recording, it is difficult to single out highlights, but the great architecture of the Sonata III brings everything to a point: A motivic tight interpreted first sentence, a wonderful canonically modeled Chanson and a game joyous Allegro non troppo can certainly delight any guitar lover. - Lorenz Schmidt (2/ 2003 "Concertino " about Hopp Stocks CD recording of the works of Ponce )

• One should indeed not argue about taste, but of Visée this interpretation has at least extremely far away, when you consider the current knowledge on the performance practice of his music. I can well imagine that the interpretation does trailer, although difficult to be justified to overload style foreign decoration effects makes it very difficult to enjoy the ingenious structure of these masterpieces. - Siegfried Andreae