Hartwig Groth

Hartwig Groth (* 1952 in Bielefeld ) is a German gambist and music teacher.

Groth played fiddle in his school days, as well as piano, guitar and trombone. He passed his school music and music teacher exams at the Hanover University of Music , majoring in viola da gamba (with Heinrich Haferland ). He continued his viol studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Ingrid Stampa and completed it as a DAAD scholarship holder in The Hague with Wieland Kuijken with a soloist diploma. This was followed by intensive concert activities with ensembles such as the Sharoun Ensemble of the Berliner Philharmoniker , the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin , Musica Alta Ripa , Concerto Köln , Cantus Cölln and Musica Fiata and as a chamber music partner of Egbert Schimmelpfennig , Ingo Goritzki , Sergio Azzolini and Christoph Lehmann , Alessandro Piquet and others, in the course of which more than a hundred CD and radio recordings were made.

As a student, Groth taught children at the Free Waldorf School in Hannover-Bothfeld. Since 1982 he has been teaching at the University of Music in Nuremberg , since 1998 at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich viol, ensemble direction, continuo playing and chamber music. In Nuremberg he founded the university ensemble “Studio für Alte Musik”, with which he regularly performs music from the 17th and 18th centuries ( Claudio Monteverdi , Henry Purcell , Franz Tunder , Dietrich Buxtehude , Matthias Weckmann ) and with which in 2013 a CD with first recordings the music of Johann Stadens originated. As a conductor he conducts concert performances of baroque operas (including Purcell's King Arthur , Gluck's L'île de Merlin , Pepusch's The Beggar's Opera and Telemann's Flavius ​​Bertaridus, King of the Longobards ).

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• Nuremberg University of Music: Prof. Hartwig Groth
• Forum Old Music Cologne - Hartwig Groth
• Zither7 - Hartwig Groth