Markus Birkhoff

Markus Birkhoff (* 1967 in Grevenbroich ) is a German guitarist and guitar teacher.

Markus Birkhoff with guitar

Life

Markus Birkhoff lives in Kevelaer on the Lower Rhine and has been playing classical guitar since he was ten years old. At the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf, he was trained by Maritta Kersting , professor of guitar, and passed the music teacher examination in 1993. Furthermore, he passed his artistic maturity examination there in 1996 with distinction and finished his studies in 1997 with the concert exam. In the same year his highly acclaimed debut CD with works by John Dowland and Johann Sebastian Bach was released , which was followed by other classical guitar CDs.

Markus Birkhoff, who took part in several competitions, was a student of the English guitarist and lutenist Julian Bream at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in 1994 . Numerous concerts, radio and television productions etc. a. WDR , as a soloist or with different chamber music ensembles or orchestras, as well as his work as an independent music teacher round off the artistic commitment.

Discography

• Markus Birkhoff plays Dowland & Bach - published 1997 (BWV 1006a)
• Markus Birkhoff plays romantic guitar music - published in 1999 with works by Fernando Sor , Agustín Barrios Mangoré , Manuel María Ponce and Francisco Tárrega
• Guitar music from 4 centuries - released in 2004 with the works of John Dowland , William Lawes , Fernando Sor and Enrique Granados
• Gaesdoncker Guitar Ensemble - released in 2006 with the guitar ensemble of the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck
• The day is about to come to an end - published in 2009 with works by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 998), Dowland, Mauro Giuliani , Francisco Tárrega, Francis-Paul Demillac , Heitor Villa-Lobos , Christian Gottlieb Scheidler and others. a.

Awards (1985 to 1991)

• 1st prize Jugend musiziert , competition for guitar (solo)
• Prize winner at the international guitar competition in Roermond (NL)
• Culture Prize Winner of the City of Kevelaer, 1985
• 1st prize at the regional, state and federal competition for youth orchestras in Würzburg
• 1st prize Jugend musiziert , competition for guitar (as a duo)
• Winner of the Culture Prize of the City of Kevelaer, 1991

Musical collaboration

• Wolfgang Seifen , professor at the Berlin University of the Arts
• Hans Udo Kreuels, Professor at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory , Austria
• Elmar Lehnen , organist at the papal Marinbasilika, Kevelaer
• Rainer Killich, Doctor of Musicology, Kevelaer
• Steffen Gumpert, Duisburg
• Pavle Polacek, Geldern
• Boris Böhmann , Freiburg im Breisgau
• Malcolm Arnold Sir , United Kingdom
• Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck , Goch ( North Rhine-Westphalia )
• Tom Löwenthal , Amsterdam (NL)

Cooperation with the following guitar makers

• Antonio Marin, Montero, Granada
• Gerold Karl Hannabach, Bubenreuth
• Kazuo Sato, Saarlouis
• Ignacio Fleta I, Barcelona
• Martin Seeliger - Lakewood Guitars , Giessen
• Hermann Hauser III., Reisbach a / Vils

literature

• Dellia Evers, Martin Willing: Kevelaer Personalities Volume 2. Kevelaer, 1999

Web links

• Works by and about Markus Birkhoff in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Markus Birkhoff - musician from Kevelaer . Blattus, Kevelaerer Encyclopedia.
2. ↑ flute and guitar . RP Online, October 12, 2008.
3. ↑ Guitar duo Birkhoff - Gumpert . Refrath Online, June 0, 2013.
4. ↑ Musical director of the Gaesdonck guitar ensemble ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Kevelaerer Blatt June 6, 2013