Helmut Kagerer

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Helmut Kagerer at the Unterfahrt jazz club (Munich 2009)

Helmut Kagerer (born February 7, 1961 in Passau ) is a German jazz guitarist .

Live and act

Kagerer only learned to play guitar as a teenager. From 1980 to 1982 he completed an apprenticeship at the Munich Jazz School with Joe Haider and took private lessons with Kosta Lukacs before studying with Harry Pepl at the Graz University of Music and Performing Arts from 1984 to 1986 . He also completed workshops and master classes with Jim Hall , Joe Pass , Attila Zoller , Tal Farlow , Herb Ellis , Mick Goodrick , Karl Ratzer and Peter Leitch . In 1987 he met Helmut Nieberle, with which he formed a long-standing, critically acclaimed guitar duo project that released various albums. He has also worked internationally with musicians such as Clark Terry , Benny Bailey , Arthur Blythe , Dusko Goykovich , Roman Schwaller , Marty Cook , Matthias Bätzel , Houston Person and Sheila Jordan . In 1996 he toured Germany with Attila Zoller. He also formed a duo with guitarist Andreas Dombert under the name Night of Jazz Guitars . He also recorded with Matthias Bätzel, Red Holloway , Albert Josipovic, Jermaine Landsberger, Manfred Krug and Jimmy Cobb .

Kagerer has been a lecturer in jazz guitar at the Nuremberg University of Music since 1990 ; He has also been teaching at the Vermount Jazz Center in place of Attila Zoller since 2003 and has been teaching at the Liszt School of Music Weimar since 2006 . His transcriptions of relevant guitar solos are among others. a. Published in the US magazine Just Jazz Guitar and in Hot Club News .

Prizes and awards

In 1991, Kagerer and Nieberle received the Free State of Bavaria's Culture Prize. In 2007 the duo received the Archtop Germany Award .

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personal data
SURNAME Kagerer, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Passau