rotenburg guitar festival

Pujol studied guitar with Alfredo Vicente Gascón and Abel Carlevaro. While studying at the Buenos Aires Conservatory of Music "Juan José Castro" Máximo also took composition lessons with Leonídas Arnedo. In addition, he played tangos and milongas in the nightclubs of Buenos Aíres.
Today the compositions of Máximo Diego Pujol are performed all over the world and he is a welcome guest at the most prestigious international festivals and for the first time a guest of the Rotenburger Guitar Week.

Liying Zhu was admitted to the class of China's leading guitar teacher Chen Zhi at the age of 11 in Beijing. In 2013-15 she completed her master's degree with Prof. Alfred Eickholt at the University of Music and Dance Cologne / Wuppertal and completed her concert exam there in 2018.
In 2014/15 Liying Zhu took four first places in international competitions, i.a. "International Twents Gitaar Concours" (Netherlands) and "Koblenz International Guitar Competition" (Germany).
Since then, she has performed successfully as a soloist and with various chamber music ensembles in many countries in Asia, Europe, South America and the USA. In 2015, Liying Zhu made her debut at Carnegie Hall in New York.
In Rotenburg she is also for the first time and will give a concert and teach.

Jessica Kaiser is one of the most interesting guitarists of the young generation and has successfully completed many major competitions. She studied with Thomas Müller-Pering at the Academy of Music Weimar and now with Paolo Pegoraro at the University of Graz (Austria). She is also a passionate chamber musician and performs numerous concerts in duo with violinist Johanna Ruppert and in guitar duo with Jakob Schmidt.
Two years ago she was a guest of the Rotenburger Gitarrenwoche, thrilled the audience in the prizewinner concert and convinced the participants with her profound lessons. We are very happy that she is our guest again.

 Together with Dirk Lemmermann, Hans Wilhelm Kaufmann is the director of the Rotenburger Gitarrenwoche. In 1982 he founded the Rotenburger Gitarrenwochen together with Grant Gustafson. He teaches at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen. Due to his many years of experience in chamber music and conducting, his lessons are primarily characterized by musical interpretation.