Tilman Hoppstock, guitar

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach, Suite for Cello No. 1, BWV 1007 (arr. T. Hoppstock)
Federico Moreno Torroba, Suite castellana, Nocturno
Leo Brouwer, Etudes Simples, selection
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Isaac Albéniz, El Polo from Iberia (arr. T. Hoppstock)
Francisco Tarrega, Spanish Suite
Paco de Lucia, Granaina, Taranta

For over two decades renowned guitarist Tilman Hoppstock has been appearing in concerts and holding recitals. He often conducts master classes and is considered an acknowledged expert in Johann Sebastian Bach’s works for lute.

Since 1978 he has undertaken concert tours to the most important cultural centres of the whole world. Tilman Hoppstock has so far made solo appearances in all major centres from Paris to London and from New York to San Francisco, as well as in cities as scattered as Berlin, Jerusalem, Athens, Istanbul, Tokyo, Boston, Singapore, Casablanca, Martinique and Mexico-City. In 1998/99 Tilman Hoppstock took invitations to give concerts and master classes at the Royal Academy of Music in London, at the Manhattan School of Music
in New York and in 2006 at the University of South California in Los Angeles.
Between 2003-2005 he was invited to teach as a guest professor at the Music – High School in Piteå (Sweden). In addition, he has appeared in concerts and made radio, television and commercial recordings with many ensembles and chamber artists such as Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Peter Wolf (cello), Rainer Zipperling (Baroque cello), Duo Gruber/Maklar, the Rubio String Quartet and Alexis Weissenberg (piano). Beside his live performances, the artist has recorded 20 LPs/CDs which have been received enthusiastically by the press. In 1999, T. Hoppstock and his partner in duet, singer Christoph Prégardien, were awarded the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik for their CD Songs of Love & Death. Today, Hoppstock holds recitals, has been teaching guitar classes at the Gutenberg University in Mainz and the Academy of Music in Darmstadt for more than 20 years and additionally teaches chamber music, guitar harmony and counterpoint music. In addition to his performing career, Tilman Hoppstock has gained recognition as a publisher of over fifty music editions for children (chamber music) and advanced guitar students, and of arrangements of baroque works for solo guitar (Froberger, L. Couperin, Buxtehude, Bach). His expertise in Ancient Music resulted in the publication of a critically acclaimed scientific edition of Bach’s works for lute which is now regarded a standard source by guitarists all over the world.

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