Grant Gustafson (USA) Mitbegründer

Lisa Smith (USA) 1991, 1994, 1996, 2002

Krzysztof Nieborak (Polen) 1994

Antonio Prendes (Spanien) 1995, 1997, 2002

Roland Dyens (Frankreich) 1996

Rémí Boucher (Kanada) 1996

William Anderson (USA) 1998

Margarita Escarpa (Spanien) 1999

Roland Dyens (Frankreich) 1996

Alexander Frauchi (Russland) 1993

Raphaëlla Smits (Belgien) 2001, 2002, 2007
is one of our favourite guests artists: wonderful person, great teacher, excellent player and outstanding cook! What else do we need?
For more details about Raphaëlla see here
Raphaella Smits plays worldwide in her unique way eight-string guitars and historical instruments. Solo recitals as well as performances in duo with the most distinguished colleagues.Besides that stage-work she has made 15 albums, many of them being listed as indispensable to refined music lovers.
Raphaella Smits is internationally praised as an inspiring teacher for both guitar and chamber music. In addition to her chair at the Lemmens Institute in Belgium, she regularly gives master classes in West and East Europe, in North and South America and in Japan. Organizers of international music competitions ask Raphaella as a member of the jury because of her ability to listen and to judge so accurately. Here again she shows her talent to combine professional skills with a great sense of empathy.Raphaella Smits is called quite rightly "une Grande Musicienne".

Pablo Garibay (Mexico) 2002

Pavel Steidl 2003, 2004

Christopher Kane (USA) 1997

Ralf Winkelmann 1998

Nikita Koshkin (Russland) 1995, 1998

Carlo Marchione (Italien) 2000

Luis Manuel Molina (Kuba) 1990, 1992, 1995, 2002

Lory Ann Darnell (USA, Gesang) 1991, 1993

Celso Marchado (Brasilien) 2001, 2002, 2007
will be again in Rotenburg - after 5 years. When he plays solo in a recital, we realize Brazilian music pure: voice, percussion, guitar. Also as an instructor and improviser, his students are carried away with enthusiasm. Waiting for 10 minutes, until everbody is ready to go out to the concert? Not with Celso! He is already playing, prompting his fellows to accompany his music: voice, perscussion, guitar - or whatever he has right now in his hands.
Celos is a great cook, last time he createt Brazilian cuisine for all partiicipants for the last night in Rotenburg. Can you imagine a nicer festival?
For the 25th anniversary Celso will compose a piece for the Rotenburg Guitar Orchestra and will bring it together with him to the world premiere on Sunday, 29 June, 2007.

Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt (Chile, Vortrag) 1993

Andreas Grün (Vortrag) 1994

Carlos Molina (USA) 1995

Martin Müller 1992

Violeta Dinescu (Rumänien, Vortrag) 1994

Marita Meyer 1995

Zbigniew Dubiella (Polen, Vortrag) 2002

Eleftheria Kotzia (Griechenland) 2005

Wally Hase, flute
As a student of Professor Karl-Friederich Mess, flautist Wally Hase, who was born in 1969 in Freiburg/Brsg., won the first prize in the German "Young Musician of the Year" in 1984 and in 1985. In 1986 she started her studies at the Hochschule für Musik (College of Music) in Stuttgart after she had been to the United States of America on a scholarship in the same year to play in the World Youth Symphony Orchestra. She studied with Professor Jean-Claude Gérard and completed her "Künstlerische Reife" degree in 1993.
As a member of the Festival Orchestra in Ludwigsburg, Wally Hase toured to China, Japan and South America. In 1989 she participated at the "Festival of the Arts" in New Zealand and in the same year, the German television channel ZDF broadcast a portrait of her as part of their Sunday concert series. In 1990 she was selected as a scholarship holder of the Richard-Wagner-Society in Bayreuth. The following year she started studying with Professor Aurèle Nicolet.
Between 1990 and 1993 she was a member of the ENSEMBLE 13 in Karlsruhe as well as of the "Bach Collegium Stuttgart" conducted by Helmuth Rilling.
With the beginning of the season 1992/93 she was engaged as Principal Flute by the Staatskapelle Weimar, Germany. Her versatile engagement as a solo player, chamber musician and founding member of many ensembles is complemented by CD recordings, TV and radio broadcasts as well as by many concerts, seminars and competition jury participation in Germany and in Europe. Since 2000 she is Professor for Flute at the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt" in Weimar.

Dávid Pavlovits: The Hungarian guitarist attended the guitar and composition class of the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Szeged. The most important influence during his studies in Hungary he received from the professor Ede Roth. He graduated at the Darmstadt Academy of Music in guitar with distinction, later he has also graduated the Gutenberg University in Mainz and the Musikhochschule in Munich. He took classes with the following masters: Tilman Hoppstock, Olaf van Gonnissen, Walter Schumacher, (guitar), Lajos Huszár, Heinz-Wieland Kurz (composition), Grigory Gruzman (piano).
He has also attended Leo Brouwer’s master classes which played an important role in his compositional development.

Since 1993 he has been a laureate at several music competitions, such as in Zory, Poland (distincion)- where Hans Wilhelm Kaufmann was member of the jury - , the 13. Esztergom International Guitar Competition (1st prize), the Budapest Music Contest (2nd prize), International Guitar Competition of Crete, Greece (2nd prize) and the Viareggio Competition of Composers (distinction). He received the “Zoltán Kodály” Stipend for composers in 1999. The musical language of his compositions contains often polytonal and polyrhythmic elements.

He has been teaching guitar, music theory and music history since 1996, recently he is teacher at the Faculty of Music of the University of Szeged. In 2005 he has performed a solo recital with great success at the Carnegie Hall in New York. He has been holding master classes worldwide in English, German, French, Russian, Italian and Spanish languages. He is also regularly invited to juries of international music competitions.

In 2006 David and Hans Wilhelm meet each other again at the guitar festival in Sczcawno (director Piotr Zaleski). David presented himself as a distinguished instructor, highly gifted soloist and great partner together with Tomasz Zawierucha, when they both played the solo parts of the Bach Concerto BWV 1060 with the guitar orchestra of Szczawno 2006, conducted by Hans Wilhelm Kaufmann. David will be the first time at the Rotenburg Guitarweek, and we look forward to perform again the Bach concerto with David and Tomasz. See also website David Pavlovits

 Tomasz Zawierucha: The Polish guitarist enjoys a truly international career. In the past year he has performed throughout the Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Lithuania, Great Britain, Belgium, France, Japan and of course his native Poland.

As a guest artist and a lecturer he regularly participates in numerous festivals such as the Dundee Guitar Festival in Scotland, Rassegna Chitaristica Internazionale in Italy, Kunstfest in Germany, Rencontres de la Guitare in Paris, Pazailslis Music Festival in Lithuania, Tokyo Guitar Festival and many others.

He graduated with honours from the Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan, Poland, continuing his education until 2003 as a master student, at the Franz Liszt Hochschule für Musik in Weimar, under tutelage of Prof. Monika Rost and Prof. Thomas Müller-Pering.

In 2006 Tomasz, Hans Wilhelm Kaufmann, and David Pavlovits met each other the first time at the Szczawno festival under the direction of Piotr Zaleski. Besides teaching they performed together the Concerto BWV 1060 by J.S. Bach in the final concert of the festival together with the festival guitar orchestra.

At the Rotenburg Guitar Week Tomasz will give a recital together with Magdalena Rozanska, violin as the Duo Discordi. And of course we will play again the Bach concerto! This time with the Guitar Orchestra of the Rotenburg Guitar Week. And maybe we will be also with Magdalena as a soloist. We work on it.  See also website Tomasz Zawierucha