Frank Bungarten

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Frank Bungarten

Frank Bungarten (* 1958 in Cologne ) is a German guitarist .

Life

Influenced by rock music in the 1960s, he started playing guitar when he was around 10 years old. One of his first teachers was the Paraguayan virtuoso Carlos Baez, who temporarily lived in the Rhineland and who introduced him to South American music at an early age. He made his first appearances at the age of 13 as the guitarist of a band formed by teachers from his high school that played jazz standards. His contact with jazz led him to learn the tenor and soprano saxophone by himself. Despite his later career as a classical musician, he always referred to John Coltrane as his paramount influence. Before graduating from high school, Bungarten began studying at the Cologne University of Music . After his musical training with Karl-Heinz Böttner and Hubert Käppel and a master class with Oscar Ghiglia in Italy, he withdrew to shape the foundations of his playing on his own. In addition to studying guitar, he had numerous engagements in radio productions, festivals and jazz clubs as a saxophonist in his group "Extempore" with freely improvised music. After a second place in the federal university competition in 1981, he performed internationally in the same year. Andrés Segovia awarded him the first prize at the IV guitar competition . Concurso Internacional De Interpretacion Musical in Granada, combined with a tour of Spain. Immediately thereafter, he graduated with honors and started working as a university lecturer. To this day he has played as a soloist in over 40 countries around the world, including on behalf of the Goethe Institute . He played at the Berlin Philharmonic, the Kunst- und Kongresshaus Luzern, the Munich Gasteig, the Salzburg Festival , the Schwetzinger Festival , the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , MDR Music Summer , the Lower Saxony Music Days and guitar festivals from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, from Dublin to Havana . His concert and CD programs are based on pianistic models in terms of demands and scope. Likewise his interpretive attitude, which is characterized by seriousness and attention to detail. For his concert activities he uses instruments made by the guitar builder Gerhard Schnabl, born in 1939, from the Upper Franconian Bräuningshof ( Langensendelbach ) near Erlangen .

Honors

In 1997, Bungarten was awarded the “Deutsche Schallplattenkritik” prize and twice, in 2005 and 2011, with the “ Echo Klassik ” in the “Instrumentalist of the Year” category.

On October 14, 2018, Bungarten was awarded the Opus Klassik prize during a gala moderated by Thomas Gottschalck in the Konzerthaus in Berlin .

Teaching

Even as a teenager, Bungarten earned his pocket money with guitar lessons and taught classmates and adults alike, for seven years at the Frechen Municipal Music School. In 1981 he worked as assistant to his teacher Hubert Käppel at the Cologne University of Music and from 1982 at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, where he still looks after an international class as a professor. From 1989 to 2010 he was also a professor at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences. He has given over a hundred seminars and master classes worldwide. His uncompromising teaching approach is met with glowing approval and disapproval in the guitar world. The photographer Thomas Struth dedicated a video project to Bungarten's teaching that was presented in 2005 in Bern and New York.

Discography (selection)

  • JS Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo, Transcriptions for Guitar, 2 CDs, MDG 305 1028-2
  • Fernando Sor: Selected Studies, CD, MDG L3390
  • Castelnuovo-Tedesco: 24 Caprichos de Goya op. 195, 2 CDs, MDG 3050725-2
  • "Cancion y Danza", CD, MDG 305 1246-2
  • Frank Bungarten plays works by Barrios & Ponce , LP, FSM 68 701
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos: "Complete Solo Works for Guitar", CD, MDG
  • Mauro Giuliani: Works for Flute and Guitar + Andrea Lieberknecht, Flute, CD, MDG
  • Federico Moreno Torroba: "Guitar Works", CD, MDG
  • Johann Kaspar Mertz: "The Last Viennese Virtuoso", CD, MDG

Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Johannes Tappert: To Gerhard Schnabl .
  2. ↑ n.v . : Echo-Klassik successor awarded in Berlin , in: [[Neue Presse (Hannover) |]] of October 15, 2018, p. 23
personal data
SURNAME Bungarten, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne