Frank Bungarten

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Frank Bungarten
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Background information
Born6 May 1958
Cologne, Germany
Origin Germany
Genres Classical Music, European art music
Occupation(s)Classical Guitar Performer, Professor, Classical Musician.
Instrument(s) Classical guitar, Saxophone
Years active1980–present
Website http://www.frankbungarten.de/

Frank Bungarten (born 6 May 1958) [1] is a classical guitarist from Germany. Although he is often regarded as a Bach expert on the guitar, Bungarten plays a wide and diverse repertoire. [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Biography

Born in Cologne, Bungarten first came in touch with the guitar aged ten. His first teacher was Paraguayan virtuoso Carlos Baez, then a temporary resident in the Rhineland. As a teenager he played in a school band. He had an early passion for jazz and taught himself tenor and soprano saxophone. Despite his later career as a classical musician, he has always regarded John Coltrane as one of his towering influences. Later he has played the saxophone with his group "Extempore", including engagements in radio productions, festivals and jazz clubs. Bungarten studied the guitar at the Academy of Music, Cologne, where he studied with Karl-Heinz Bottner and Hubert Käppel. He also attended a master class with Oscar Ghiglia in Italy.

In 1981, Andrés Segovia honoured him with the first prize at the Guitar Competition of Granada, leading to an extensive concert tour of Spain. Immediately following his studies, he commenced his career as a university lecturer and has been performing as a soloist throughout Europe and the Americas. To date, he has performed in over 40 countries including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Arts and Convention Centre Lucerne, the Gasteig (Munich), the Salzburg Festival, Schwetzingen Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, MDR Music Summer, the Lower Saxony Music Festival and at international guitar festivals in southern Europe, Scandinavia, India and elsewhere. He has won two Echo awards for his outstanding versatility on the classical guitar. [6]

Among his recordings, "J. S.Bach. Sonatas and Partitas for Violin solo", has received particular critical acclaim.

Teaching

Bungarten used to earn his pocket money as a teenager by giving guitar lessons, and he had later taught both kids and adults for seven years and at the municipal music school in Frechen. In 1981, he served as assistant to his teacher Hubert Käppel at the Cologne Academy of Music. Since 1982, Bungarten holds a chair at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover in Hannover. From 1989 to 2010, he was also a professor at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, which he resigned in favour of his artistic activities. He regularly conducts masterclasses and seminars all over the world. [7] His uncompromising approach to teaching, projects the classical guitar's versatile potential.

Awards and recognition

In 2005, Frank Bungarten was awarded the Echo Klassik award for "Instrumentalist of the Year" for his CD Cancion y Danza. [8]

He has been also rewarded with the "Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik" (German music critic awards), the "Audio Reference" (Audio Reference prize). [5] [9]

In 2011, Frank Bungarten was honoured with the "Echo Klassik" (Echo (music award)) award as "Instrumentalist of the Year" a second time. [10] [11]

On 14 October 2018, Bungarten was awarded the "Opus Klassik  [ de ]" prize during a gala hosted by Thomas Gottschalck at the Konzerthaus in Berlin.

For almost two decades, he has made reference recordings with concept repertoires on the audiophile label Musikproduktion Dabringhaus & Grimm (MDG), including a comprehensive interpretation of Bach's solo violin works in his own transcriptions. The French audio magazine Diapason simply wrote, "What we hear is not guitar, not Bungarten, it is Bach".

Discography

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References

  1. ↑ Maurice J. Summerfield: The Classical Guitar. Its Evolution, Players and Personalities Since 1800, 5th edition (Blaydon-on-Tyne: Ashley Mark, 2002), p. 73–74.
  2. ↑ http://www.mdg.de/pdf/0834e.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  3. ↑ "Frank Bungarten - Vita deutsch". Archived from the original on 2012-02-29. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
  4. ↑ "Frank Bungarten". Archived from the original on 2012-07-19. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
  5. 1 2 "Artists - アーティスト｜concert imagine". www.concert.co.jp.
  6. ↑ "An Interview with Colin Cooper", in Classical Guitar Magazine, January 2000.
  7. ↑ "Guitar virtuoso Frank Bungarten closes Akbank Guitar Days". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
  8. ↑ "Lokal-Anzeiger Hamburg online - Seit 1948 Stadtteilzeitungen". www.lokalanzeiger.info.
  9. ↑ "Calcutta International Classical Guitar Festival 2010". www.calguitarfest.in. Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  10. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-01-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ↑ "Echo Klassik: Frank Bungarten". Archived from the original on 2012-07-28. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
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