CHRISTIAN REICHERT

 

Classical guitar,

Germany

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.

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 sold more than 100.000 copies of his albums and 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.

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) and many others.

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 award winners Alvaro Pierri and Sharon Isbin. A very special honour was the work with legendary baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

Since 2017 he has been teaching at the University of Music in Freiburg (Germany) and since 2007 in Bale (Switzerland).​

Christian Reichert has recorded more than 20 CDs and played for many television and radio stations in Germany and abroad.

He has been working also as a conductor, arranger and film score composer. And his guitar learning platform "gitarrenstunde.tv" is highly attractive for thousands of guitar students.