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Gerhard Reichenbach

Performer and Teacher


Gerhard Reichenbach is one of the leading European guitar virtuosos of his generation. His solo performances at the important international guitar festivals and at concert halls like the Berliner Philharmonie are highlights of classical guitar performance, and his playing is compared with masters of the guitar like Andres Segovia and John Williams.

He was born on March 7, 1965 in Langenfeld (Germany), and received his first guitar training from his father who is an amateur player as well as from Judith Schumacher at the Musikschule Langenfeld. His debut performance was a solo recital at the age of 15. Later he studied guitar at the Cologne School of Music with Prof. Dieter Kreidler, and also at the Athens Conservatory with Kostas Kotsiolis. Private studies with Odair Assad, member of the famous Assad Duo from Brazil, influenced his playing as well as lessons with Manuel Barrueco, Alexandre Lagoya, and Karl Scheit. His international reputation was ensured after he won the International Guitar Competition of San Juan in Puerto Rico in 1989.

Gerhard Reichenbach has an active concert repertoire of more than 35 absolutely different solo recital programmes, some chamber music programmes, and 13 concertos with guitar and orchestra. A passionate advocate of the contemporary guitar repertoire, he performed premieres or first performances of composers like Hans Werner Henze, Leo Brouwer, Rossen Balkanski, Manfred Trojan, Ulrich Leyendecker, and many more. Composers dedicated pieces to Gerhard, such as Gerard Drozd (Concerto op.87), Rossen Balkanski (Balkanska Sonata), Buck Wolters (Samba de Lobo) etc. He recorded 4 CDs for the labels Dabringhaus&Grimm, Aurea Vox, and GegaNew. Some of his transcriptions have been published by Schott (Mainz, Germany), and BalkaNota (Sofia, Bulgaria).

Teaching is an important part of his artistic life. Apart from giving master classes and lessons at guitar festivals and at universities in Europe, Gerhard Reichenbach taught at the Guitar Department of the Weimar School of Music “Franz Liszt” from 1994 to 2000. In 2000 he moved to Greece where he became professor for classical guitar at the Thessaloniki State Conservatory.

Gerhard Reichenbach


Visit his website at

www.reichenbachguitar.com



His transcriptions
published by BalkaNota:

Complete lute works
by J. S. Bach

Five sonatas
by Domenico Scarlatti


His recordings:

Balkanska Sonata
published by GegaNew