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Helmut Oesterreich at a concert in 2011

Helmut Oesterreich (born October 1, 1953 in Heidelberg ) is a German guitarist and conductor .

Life

Helmut Oesterreich studied guitar with Michael Teuchert and chamber music with his father Heinz Teuchert at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts . There he has been teaching guitar and methodology since 1986. He also teaches guitar at the Heidelberg Music School and, since 2009, guitar, ensemble management and teaching methodology at the vocational school for music in the Middle Franconia district in Dinkelsbühl .

He is a member of the ensembles for new music Phorminx from Darmstadt and Nunc from Heidelberg. As a conductor he has been leading the Baden-Württemberg Youth Guitar Orchestra since 1994, with which he won first prize at the German Competition for Selected Orchestras in 1998 and 2018, undertook numerous concert tours and made CD recordings. From 2003 to 2005 he was conductor of the World Guitar Orchestra . In 1996 he won the fourth German Orchestra Competition with the Ensemble GuitArt . He also directed the United Guitars Ensemble in 2007 and the Open Source Guitars of the Trossingen University of Music since 2008 . He is also regularly invited by internationally known ensembles such as the Nederlands Gitaarorkest or the European Youth Guitar Ensemble as a guest conductor at concerts and workshops at major festivals around the world, for example in Havana , Almere , Veria and Nürtingen . On his concert tours around the world he worked with Terry Riley , Leo Brouwer , David Tanenbaum and Olaf Van Gonnissen , among others .

He won the Diapason d'or for the CD NUNC and it was CD of the month in the magazines Guitar & Lute and Staccato .

Discography

• 1991: NUNC - guitar solo and duo ( Bayer Records )
• 1995: Ensemble NUNC ( signum )
• 1998: Foxfire - guitar and vocals ( Bayer Records )
• 2004: Crossing Borders - World Guitar Ensemble ( Bayer Records )
• 2004: another sort of fire - guitar solo with chamber music ( Bayer Records )
• 1997: Mouvements Dynamiques - JGO BW ( Bayer Records )
• 2002: Y Bolanzero - JGO BW ( Bayer Records )
• 2005: Open Strings - JGO BW ( Bayer Records )
• 2004: Walking Dances - Jorge Liderman and JGO BW ( bridge-records )
• 2006: Portrait of the composer Alois Bröder - guitar and violoncello ( Melisma )
• 2006: MIKADO, composer portrait Roland Boehm - guitar solo ( Musikverlag R. Boehm )
• Sound worlds in wood and nylon - JGO Hessen ( private edition JGO - H / BDZ Hessen ) mandolinenorchester neuehain ( self-published )
• 2008: JGO meets Duo Kvaratskhelia ( ears love music )
• 2011: Rain Light Symphony - JGO BW ( Bayer Records )
• 2015: re: phrase - OSG ( Bayer Records )

Web links

• OSG open source guitars - Trossingen
• Guitar Orchestra Baden-Württemberg
• Personal homepage
• Profile on gitarrist.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Info from teachers at the Frankfurt University of Music. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 7, 2014 ; Retrieved July 20, 2011 . 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.  
2. ↑ BFSM Dinkelsbühl. Retrieved July 20, 2011 . 
3. ^ Ensemble Phorminx. Retrieved July 20, 2011 . 
4. ↑ Info at JGO BW. Retrieved July 20, 2011 . 
5. ↑ Competition for selected orchestras 2018. Accessed on April 28, 2019 . 
6. ↑ member.multimania.de. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 20, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
7. ↑ Short bio at Ensemble GuitArt. Retrieved July 20, 2011 . 
8. ↑ gitarrist.net. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 28, 2011 ; Retrieved July 20, 2011 . 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.