Michael Tröster (born 1956) is a classical guitarist from

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...

. Tröster studied under

Gerhard Vogt Gerhard Vogt (29 November 1919 – 14 January 1945) was a German Luftwaffe military aviator and fighter ace during World War II. He is credited with 48 aerial victories, claimed over the Western Front and in Defense of the Reich in 174 combat m ...

before studying with Professor

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, Dieter Kirsch, Konrad Ragossnig, and

Siegfried Behrend Siegfried Behrend (19 November 1933 – 20 September 1990) was a German classical guitarist and composer. Biography Behrend was born in Berlin. He studied piano, harpsichord, conducting and composition at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory ...

at the music academies in

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its ...

Würzburg Würzburg (; Main-Franconian: ) is a city in the region of Franconia in the north of the German state of Bavaria. Würzburg is the administrative seat of the '' Regierungsbezirk'' Lower Franconia. It spans the banks of the Main River. Würzbur ...

and

Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS) ...

. In 1997 Tröster was a recipient of the Echo Classic award for musician of the year for his solo album ''El Decameron Negro''. He won the

Diapason d'Or The Diapason d'Or (French for "Golden Tuning Fork") is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of '' Diapason'' magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the ...

prize in France the following year. He has gained renown for his recitals of

Heitor Villa-Lobos Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the ...

and

Miguel Llobet Miguel Llobet Solés (18 October 187822 February 1938) was a classical guitarist, born in Barcelona, Spain. Llobet was a renowned virtuoso who toured Europe and America extensively. He made well known arrangements of Catalan folk songs for th ...

, having recorded all of their major works, and he has won the Villa-Lobos-Contest Milano. He has released over 40 CDs, mainly Villa-Lobos and Llobet recordings, but he has also recorded ''Conciertos para Guitarra'' with the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra, and won acclaim for his recital of Joaquin Rodrigo's "

Concierto de Aranjuez The ''Concierto de Aranjuez'' (, "Aranjuez Concerto") is a classical guitar concerto by the Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo. Written in 1939, it is by far Rodrigo's best-known work, and its success established his reputation as one of the m ...

". Tröster has been teaching at the Musikakademie Kassel since 1986. He also often performs in a duo setting (Duo Capriccioso) with his wife Gertrud Tröster, or with chamber musicians, or

orchestra An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...

. He has toured Europe, the United States, Canada, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Laos, Thailand, Brunei, Korea, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia.

References

External links

Official siteMichael Tröster - Complete Discography
German classical guitarists German male guitarists 1956 births Living people {{Germany-guitarist-stub