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I discovered this recording years later. One of the best versions I have heard of my “Concerto Elegiaco”. It is a real luck and gift to have performers like Friedemann Wuttke on guitar and the legendary Igor Zukov conducting. Thank you!
Leo Brouwer, Havanna 2021
Friedemann Wuttke studied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, later refining his art further, including master classes with prestigious international soloists such as his friend and mentor, the world-class Russian pianist Igor Zhukov. He also met the famous Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo at a concert in Madrid in the spring of 1998 and was invited to his home.
GitarreHamburg wrote in 2005:
“It is not merely his instrumental and musical skills that have earned this likeable musician a prominent place in the German guitar scene. His ability to devise interesting repertoires and his productive collaboration with other reputable artists ensure that Friedemann Wuttke is never short of work. He is a musician who acts on his own intuition.”
His uncompromising commitment to a classical repertoire and to serious programmes set Friedemann Wuttke apart from many of his fellow concert guitarists. Whatever the character of the individual programmes, the music which he selects gives it a rounded and artistically complete feel.
Friedemann Wuttke is a welcome guest not just in Germany but in all European countries. He has also performed in big concert halls both as a soloist and with orchestra in Russia, Middle East, South-East Asia, Africa, Central and South America.
Behind this versatility is a musician with an immense love of the guitar and its music who sees his vocation in serving musical communication and sharing his own abiding enthusiasm in his music with his listeners.
Since 2004 Friedemann Wuttke has been under exclusive contract as a concert guitarist to the record label Hänssler Profil Medien and Hänssler Classic. This was followed by a large number of albums.
In spring 2023, the first international tours since the coronavirus pandemic began took place, with concerts and masterclasses in the Dominican Republic at the invitation of the German Embassy in Santo Domingo and the Fundacion Sinfonia Santo Domingo. After concerts in Italy, Switzerland and France further international concerts will follow in 2025 and 2026.
