13th International Gituar Festival at Hersbruck Welcome to the 13th International Guitar Festival Hersbruck! This year will come some of the most fascinating guitarists of the differend genres to Hersbruck again, so you can enjoy the guitar with all of it's facet. In the last years guitar stars like Pepe Romero, Tommy Emmanuel, David Russell, Eliot Fisk or Leo Brouwer were more than once at our festival. This year will be as varied as the last festivals. There will be artist from all over world. Gerardo Núñez will come with his flamenco group from Spain. Diknu Schneeberger (Austria) will be here again, also Badi Assad from Brazil and Jorge Cardoso from Argentina. We will also have Tulio Peramo Cabrera from Kuba as a guest, who will compose a piece for the festival, which will perform on stage for the first time by pubils from the festival. From Uruguay will come Alvaro Pierri, who is also professor in Wien. Another highlight are the Grammy-Award Winners the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, with Bill Kanengiser, Scott Tennant, Matthew Greif und John Dearman, who were at the festival at the 10th jubilee. Two different duos will come to Hersbruck, the Amadeus Duo and the Devecchi/Seminara-crossover duo from Italy. Don't miss Robert Barto with his Lute and his interpretation of Silvius Leopold Weiss. Michael Langer will be come again and gets support from Pierre Bensunan. Also again in Hersbruck: Stephan Bormann for all you want to play the e-guitar. The bandworkshop will be organized from Cornelius Claudio Kreusch (jazz-piano), Bobby Watson (Sax), Zaf Zapha (bass) and Maxime Zampieri (drums). All over the week there will be exihibitions, lectures, sessions, master classes, workshops and lessons at the festival center. We also have extend the seminars. There will be more of it, now under the name "Hersbruck Musik Akademie"(Hersbruck Music Academie), like "Right Practice", "Deseases of musicians avoid and heal", and "Issues to interpret early music" I'm looking forward to a great festival with a lot of fascinating concerts, courses, lectures and meetings. Johannes Tonio Kreusch
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