Christian REICHERT
Classical guitar
Germany
BIOGRAPHY
Christian Reichert shows a command of the guitar that encompasses both extreme sensitivity and virtuosity. The guitarist with “the fascinating technical experience and perfect rhythm” (SZ Germany) “fills the audience easily with enthusiasm” (El País, Spain).
He concertizes and gives master-classes frequently all over Europe including Russia and Bulgaria, in the U.S. and other inernational venues. (Paris, Moscow, Granada, Montreux, Stockholm, Cracow, Sofia, Vienna etc.)
Christian Reichert works as a soloist with renowned orchestras like the „Rousse Philharmonic Ochestra“, the “Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra”, the „Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, the “Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra”, the „Orchestra Cameralna Bratislava“, “Deutsche Kammersolisten” and many others.
Mr. Reichert earned worldwide reputation with his much lauded and constantly broadening compact disc recordings for “Music Minus One” in New York. He has recorded the most important guitar concertos with orchestra like Rodrigos´ “Concierto de Aranjuez”, “Fantasia para un Gentilhombre”, concertos by Mauro Giuliani, Ferdinando Carulli, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Manuel Maria Ponce and Antonio Vivaldi. The recordings are distributed worldwide and beeing sold in 18 countries.
By age 21 he was a prize-winner at the Andrés Segovia International Guitar Competition in Spain. He won several prizes at international competitions all over Europe like 1998 the First Prize at the International Guitar Foundation`s Competition in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, as well as First Prize at the International Competition for Contemporary Music 1999 in Frankfurt (Germany).
He finished his studies as a guitar soloist in Cologne and Freiburg with distinction. His teachers were Roberto Aussel (Argentina), Sonja Prunnbauer, Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Roland Dyens and the Grammy winners Alvaro Pierri and Sharon Isbin.
Christian Reichert has recorded more than 20 CDs and played for many television and radio stations in Germany and abroad.
DISCOGRAPHY• 1995 Carmen-Fantasie
• 1996 Spanish Blue (La Tromba Records)
• 1999 Joaquin Rodrigo/Concierto de Aranjuez (Music Minus One - New York)
• 1999 Mauro Giuliani/Concerto op30 (Music Minus One - New York)
• 2000 Joaquin Rodrigo/Fantasia para un Gentilhombre (Music Minus One - New York)
• 2000 M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco/ Concerto in D-Dur (Music Minus One - New York)
• 2001 Serenata und Sonatina (Music Minus One - New York)
• 2001 Histoire du Tango (Music Minus One - New York)
• 2001 Cancion
• 2002 Vivaldi, Konzerte C-Dur und D-Dur (Music Minus One - New York)
• 2002 Fernando Sor, Guitar Duets (Music Minus One - New York)
• 2003 Baden Powell, Revisited (Music Minus One - New York)
• 2004 Changing Colors (Waterpipe Records)
• 2005 Ponce, Concierto del Sur (Music Minus One - New York)
• 2005 Fuoco, Latin Music for Classical Guitar (Waterpipe Records)
• 2006 About gypsies, devils and a mountain moor (Hofa)
• 2006 Bossa, Samba und Tango Duets (Music Minus One - New York)
• 2007 F. Carulli, Konzerte in A-Dur und e-moll (Music Minus One - New York)
• 2008 Rodrigo, Ponce - Concierto de Aranjuez, Concierto del Sur (Waterpipe Records)
• 2009 Play Piazzolla (Music Minus One - New York)