Nora Buschmann

Nora Buschmann (* 1969 in Berlin ) is a German guitarist and lecturer .

Artistic career

In addition to studying guitar at the Musikhochschule Weimar and the Musikhochschule Köln with Hubert Käppel (guitarist), she attended master classes with David Russell , Manuel Barrueco , Oscar Ghiglia and Thomas Müller-Pering, among others .

As a scholarship holder of the German Music Council, Nora Buschmann was committed to numerous solo concerts and appearances with orchestras in Germany (including Frankfurt Opera, Nuremberg Opera, Beethoven-Haus Bonn, NDR-Funkhaus Hannover) and made recordings for North German and Bavarian radio. During a four-year stay in Greece, she increasingly turned to teaching and chamber music and dealt intensively with traditional Greek music and Byzantine singing.

Nora Buschmann is regularly invited to major international guitar festivals as a soloist and lecturer - for example in Iserlohn and Bielefeld (Germany); Esztergom (Hungary); Istanbul, Adana and Karaburun (Turkey); Thessaloniki and Afitos (Greece); Sinaia (Romania). She has been a guest at the Goethe Institute and the Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa) several times. Concert tours have taken her to Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, the Ukraine, Argentina and Brazil.

Prizes and awards

Nora Buschmann is the winner of numerous important international competitions:

• 2nd Prize and Special Prize for "Excellent Bach Interpretation; Kutna Hora (Czech Republic, 1986)
• 2nd prize and "Villa Lobos Medal" at the "Heitor Villa Lobos" competition; Esztergom (Hungary, 1987)
• 1st prize, Tonger Competition (Cologne, 1992)
• 3rd Prize, Gargnano Guitar Competition (Italy, 1993)
• 2nd prize, Internat. Guitar competition (Vienna, 1998)
• Competition of the German Music Council (Bonn, 1992)
• Scholarship holder and nomination for the 37th national selection "Concerts of Young Artists" (1993/94)

Web links

• Website from Nora Buschmann