Four styles
24. juni 2013
20:00
One Instrument – four different styles:
Enjoy one of the most popular instruments of our time in its wonderful diversity, because when four masters of their art get together it’s a guarantee for a top-class concert experience. Let yourself be led through the world of acoustic guitar music, hear the multifarious modes of expression and savour the sounds of four virtuosos as they create - solo and in ensemble pieces - their musical magic. During a concert each of the guitarists first present excerpts from their solo repertoires. In the course of the concert they then begin to explore different combinations: acoustic fingerstyle meets jazz, flamenco meets classical and so on and so forth, culminating in a very unique guitar quartet ……… Four strong musical personalities from four musical genres merge to present a stunning spectrum on their instrument: the guitar.
Ian Melrose
is regarded internationally as one of the best performers in the field of acoustic fingerstyle. After moving from Scotland to Berlin in 1981, this city has become his home, from where he travels the all over the world playing at international festivals, clubs and giving master classes. His five solo CDs have been released on the prestigious German "Acoustic Music Records" label, receiving rave reviews from fans and press alike. He writes a regular fingerstyle column for the German magazine "Akustik Gitarre" and is also a sought-after studio musician and producer. He also performs regularly with Kerstin Blodig in KELPIE (Celtic-Scandinavian World Music) and with ethno-jazz accordion virtuoso Manfred Leuchter in the Leuchter-Melrose Duo.
"top class guitarist... brilliant fingerpicker " www.youtube.com/user/LeuchterMelroseDuo
studied at the Osnabrück conservatory, the university for music and drama in Hamburg and at the academy of music in Malmö (Sweden), graduating with a degree in concert performance. He regularly performs as a soloist as well as together with many renowned classical singers and instrumentalists, appearing at major festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the „Hitzacker Summer Music Days". or as part of the chamber concert series at the NDR (North-German broadcasting corporation). In the summer of 2011 he additionally became a lecturer for guitar and chamber music at the Rostock academy of music and drama.
Karl Schloz
was born in 1971 in St. Louis, Missouri (USA). He began his career as a professional guitarist already at 17,working regularly with such well-known luminaries as the Temptations, the Drifters, the Shangri-La and the cream of the local jazz musicians. He gained a B.A. degree in jazz performance as presidential scholar at the University of Southern Illinois. Moving to New York City, New York he became an active part of the local jazz- and studio scene, playing at many well-known venues including Birdland , the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and was often on tour in the whole of the USA and Canada. He moved to Berlin in 2000.
Georg Kempa www.flamenco-trifft-schiller.de