Peter Finger (guitarist)

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Peter Finger in November 2016

Peter Finger (born October 11, 1954 in Weimar ) is a German guitarist , publisher and luthier. Finger is considered one of the most important contemporary fingerstyle guitarists and composers for guitar music . His stylistic spectrum ranges from romanticism and impressionism to jazz and traditional to free tonality .

Life

Peter Finger is the son of a conductor. At the age of six he began taking violin and later also piano lessons. In 1962, he took first place in the Jugend musiziert competition for his violin playing . Fingers uncle gave him an acoustic guitar when he was 13 .

Finger studied music in Münster. At the age of 19 he was discovered by the American guitarist Stefan Grossman , who took him on to his label Kicking Mule Records . The first album Fingers Bottleneck Guitar Solos , published there , which includes two transcriptions from the 2nd sonata for solo violin by Johann Sebastian Bach , which are now part of the standard guitar repertoire , became one of the label's greatest successes and made the young artist internationally known. Since 1976, Finger has been touring Europe, the USA, Canada and Asia with great success.

In 1988 Finger founded his label Acoustic Music Records , which focuses on the documentation of the German acoustic scene. Many nationally and internationally known guitarists work with the label. Finger has been publishing Akustik Guitar magazine since 1996 .

Since 1997 he has performed at the Dresden Guitar Festival . In 1998, Finger launched the annual Open Strings Guitar Festival in Osnabrück .

Finger lives and works in Osnabrück.

Awards

  • 1962: Winner of "Jugend musiziert"
  • 1969: Winner again at "Jugend musiziert"
  • 1973: Prize in the “New Talents” category at the Interfolk Festival in Fingers hometown Osnabrück
  • 1974: Second place in the composition competition "Natura" of the free music association of Lower Saxony e. V.
  • 1982: Ernst Fischer Prize for orchestral music
  • 1985: First place for his composition "Herbstwind" in the competition of the State Theater Oldenburg for orchestral compositions
  • 2003: Lower Saxony Music Prize
  • 2010: Honorary Award of the German Record Critics

Discography

  • Finger Picking (1973)
  • Guitar Instrumentals (1974)
  • Bottleneck Guitar Solos (1974)
  • Detlef & Finger (1975)
  • Acoustic Rock Guitar (1977)
  • Two Sides (1979)
  • Greyhounds (1980)
  • In the Labyrinth (with Florian Poser) (1982)
  • Best of Peter Finger & Florian Poser (1981/1982)
  • New Paths (with Charlie Mariano and Trilok Gurtu) (1984)
  • No Man's Land (1989)
  • Colors of the night (1990)
  • Inner Life (1992)
  • Solo (1993)
  • Between the Lines (1995)
  • Open Strings (1999)
  • Blue Moon (2003)
  • Dream Dancer (2003)
  • In Concert (2008)
  • Flow (2010)
  • Made of Rosewood (2014)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hannes Fricke: Myth guitar: history, interpreters, great hours. Reclam, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-020279-1 , p. 138 f.
  2. ↑ http://www.akustikgitarrist.de/?page_id=24 Discography Peter Finger.
  3. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/peter-finger-mn0000267328/discography Discography Peter Finger.
personal data
SURNAME Finger, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar