Göran Söllscher

Göran Söllscher.

Göran Söllscher (born December 31, 1955 in Växjö ) is a Swedish classical guitarist .

Life

Göran Söllscher grew up in Kalmar and took guitar lessons when he was seven. He attended the Conservatory in Malmö from 1975 to 1977 and the Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen from 1976 to 1979 . In 1978 he won one of the most prestigious guitar competitions of the time, the Concours International de Guitare in Paris, and was then offered a record deal by Deutsche Grammophon . With two exceptions, Söllscher subsequently published exclusively on this label.

Söllscher has been a member of the Royal Swedish Music Academy since 1992, and has been a professor at Lund University in Malmö since 1993 .

Göran Söllscher studied with Per-Olof Johnson (1928-2000), who among other things played an eleven-string alto guitar by Georg Bolin. Söllscher also uses an eleven-string instrument, especially for baroque lute music.

Söllscher is an enthusiastic golf player and shares this passion with David Russell ("I think we have never spoken a word about playing guitar. We have talked a lot about golf, however.")

A concerto for guitar and orchestra , composed by Erland von Koch and completed in 1982, is dedicated to Göran Söllscher and was premiered by him in Gothenburg.

Discography

• Cavatina , Deutsche Grammophon, April 2008
• Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Festival Strings Lucerne, Deutsche Grammophon, July 2007
• Reverie , with Jian Wang (cello), Deutsche Grammophon, June 2007
• Weekend Classics, A Baroque Guitar Weekend with Narciso Yepes and Andrés Segovia , Deutsche Grammophon, May 2006
• Renaissance Album , Deutsche Grammophon, October 2005
• Eleven-String Baroque , Deutsche Grammophon, June 2004
• Bach Suites , with Shlomo Mintz (violin) and Mischa Maisky (cello), Deutsche Grammophon, September 2003
• Rodrigo, Albéniz, Mangoré , Deutsche Grammophon, March 2003
• The Four Seasons , Deutsche Grammophon, February 2003
• Schubert for Two , with Gil Shaham (violin), Deutsche Grammophon, January 2003
• Essential Guitar, 24 Guitar Masterpieces , London / Decca, August 2002
• The Beatles: From Yesterday to Penny Lane , Deutsche Grammophon, September 2000
• Takemitsu: I Hear the Water Dreaming , with the BBC Symphony Orchestra , Andrew Davis, Deutsche Grammophon, April 2000
• Preludes, Songs, Homages , Deutsche Grammophon, March 1999
• Piazzolla for Two , with Patrick Gallois (flute), Deutsche Grammophon, October 1996
• New Swedish Music for Guitar , Caprice, November 1996
• The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere , Deutsche Grammophon, September 1995
• Bach, Four Suites for Lute , Deutsche Grammophon, August 1995
• Paganini for Two , with Gil Shaham (violin), Deutsche Grammophon, December 1993
• Schubert: Quartet for Flute, Viola, Guitar, and Violoncello , Deutsche Grammophon, September 1993
• Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia , Deutsche Grammophon, September 1992
• Bach - Transcriptions for Solo Guitar , Deutsche Grammophon, April 1992
• Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez , with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Deutsche Grammophon, March 1990
• Bach: Works for Lute , Deutsche Grammophon, September 1988
• Vivaldi: Concerti , Deutsche Grammophon, October 1985
• Works for Guitar , Deutsche Grammophon, 1980

literature

• Heiko Ossig: "Handicap 4.8 - or better!" Interview with Göran Söllscher. In: Guitar Current, Volume 32 (2011), No. 114, pp. 34–38

Web links

• Biography at California Artists Management (English)
• Biography at Deutsche Grammophon (English)
• Transcriptions for eleven-string guitar after Söllscher (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.musakad.se (Swedish), accessed November 12, 2011
2. ↑ www.mhm.lu.se ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Swedish), accessed November 12, 2011 
3. ↑ Ossig 2011, p. 38
4. ^ Friedrich Gersmann: Ars Viva. New guitar music in new editions. In: Guitar & Laute 10, 1988, 2, p. 52 f.