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Matthias Kläger

developed during his training at the conservatory in Freiburg (Sonja Prunnbauer) and the Ecole Normale de Musique Paris (Alberto Ponce) a great stylistic bandwidth and a wide-ranging repertoire as a classic guitarist and chamber musician as well. He was the first guitarist to be approved for the study course soloist-diploma and passed it with distinction. This was followed by competitive success and scholarships of the Study Foundation of the German People, the German Music Competition and the Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg and numerous concerts and CD recordings, lastly 2011 soloistic with own transcriptions of J. S. Bach’s violin sonatas and 2013/14 “Orient Express” with the Take Four Guitar Quartet.

1997-2011 he was director of an artistic major class at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, 2012/13 he supervised a guitar class as a substitute for Prof. Jürgen Ruck at the Musikhochschule Würzburg. Currently he is active as a teacher and subject coordinator at the MKZ Musikschule Konservatorium Zürich as well as a lecturer for guitar at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg i.Br.