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 Joaquin Clerch

Joaquin Clerch
Guitar

Joaquín Clerch (* 1965 in Havanna) studierte bis 1989 in Havanna Musik, Gitarre und Komposition bei Leopoldo Núñez, Marta Cuervo, Antonio Rodríguez, Rey Guerra und Carlos Fariñas. Parallel besuchte er Meisterklassen bei Isaac Nicola, Leo Brouwer und Costas Cotsiolis. Mit einem Stipendium setzte er sein Studium am Mozarteum in Salzburg fort, wo er Gitarre bei Eliot Fisk und alte Musik bei Anthony Spiri und Nikolaus Harnoncourt studierte. 1993 wurde er Assistent von Fisk am Mozarteum und erhielt einen Lehrauftrag an der Musikhochschule München. 1999 wurde er Professor für Gitarre an der Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf. Daneben gab er in zahlreichen europäischen Ländern Meisterkurse.

Clerch erhielt als Gitarrist mehr als dreißig Auszeichnungen, darunter erste Preise beim Andrés-Segovia-Wettbewerb in Granada, beim Heitor-Villalobos-Wettbewerb in Rio de Janeiro und beim Wettbewerb der ARD in München. Carlos Fariñas widmete ihm sein Gitarrenkonzert von 1996, ebenso Leo Brouwer das Concierto de la Habana, dessen Uraufführung Clerch 1998 in Brucknerhaus Linz spielte.

 

Joaquin Clerch was born in 1965 in Havana and from childhood studied the guitar with Leopoldina Nuñez. He continued his study at the National School of Arts and then at the Instituto Superior de Arte. His teachers were Marta Cuervo, Antonio Rodriguez, Rey Guerra, Costas Cotsiolis, Leo Brouwer and for composition Carlos Fariñas among others. In 1990 he began his training in Salzburg with a Mozarteum scholarship, where he studied the guitar with Eliot Fisk, early music with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Anthony Spiri and contemporary music with Oswald Salaberger. He completed his studies with the highest award in 1991, receiving the prize which the Cultural Ministry of Austria grants to the best graduates.

In total, Clerch got more than 30 grants, a first prize at the
Andrés-Segovia-Competition in Granada, at the Heitor-Villalobos-Competition in Rio de Janeiro and the ARD Competiton in München.

Joaquin Clerch has appeared in concerts in Paris, Tokyo, Munich, Frankfurt, Brussels, Athens, Toronto, Havana, Rio de Janeiro, Bogota, Belgrade, Istanbul and Salzburg, among other places. He has collaborated as a soloist with such well-known orchestras as the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Slovak Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba, the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg. With the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria under Adrian Leaper, he made the first recording of two guitar concertos dedicated to him by Leo Brouwer (Concierto de la Habana, 1998) and Carlos Fariñas (Concierto, 1996). Since 1999, Joaquín Clerch has been professor of guitar at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf.




spanish:
Joaquín Clerch (La Habana 1965) fue alumno predilecto de Leo Brouwer y ha estrenado muchas de sus composiciones. Desde 1999 es catedrático de guitarra en la Escuela Superior de Música de Düsseldorf. En el concierto ofrecerá un recorrido por la música de Brouwer.