Dear Guitarists,

We, the Classic Concert Music Group based in Salzburg, are happy to
announce the management and recording collaboration with the Guitarist
"Joaquin Clerch".

In the next weeks we are working hard to create with him his
Internetpage where you will find all interesting news and projects with
and about Joaquin Clerch.

We will release in May 2008 a CD with his favourite guitar works and are
happy to give you a preorder possibility with special condidions soon...

Please find his biography and booking contact at the following page or
visit www.classicconcert.com <http://www.classicconcert.com/> for more
detailed information about the Classic Concert Music Group.

Biography of Joaquin Clerch:
http://www.classicconcert.com/management/artists/clerch/clerch.htm
<http://www.classicconcert.com/management/artists/clerch/clerch.htm>

Joaquin Clerch was born in 1965 in Havana and from childhood studied the
guitar with Leopoldina Nuñez. He continued his study at the National
School of Arts and then at the Instituto Superior de Arte. His teachers
were Marta Cuervo, Antonio Rodriguez, Rey Guerra, Costas Cotsiolis, Leo
Brouwer <http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/bio27105.htm> and for
composition Carlos Fariñas
<http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/bio23219.htm> among others. In 1990
he began his training in Salzburg with a Mozarteum scholarship, where he
studied the guitar with Eliot Fisk, early music with Nikolaus
Harnoncourt and Anthony Spiri and contemporary music with Oswald
Salaberger. He completed his studies with the highest award in 1991,
receiving the prize which the Cultural Ministry of Austria grants to the
best graduates.

In total, Clerch got more than 30 grants, a first prize at the
Andrés-Segovia-Competition in Granada, at the
Heitor-Villalobos-Competition in Rio de Janeiro and the ARD Competiton
in München.

Joaquin Clerch has appeared in concerts in Paris, Tokyo, Munich,
Frankfurt, Brussels, Athens, Toronto, Havana, Rio de Janeiro, Bogota,
Belgrade, Istanbul and Salzburg, among other places. He has collaborated
as a soloist with such well-known orchestras as the Stuttgart
Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian
Radio Orchestra, the Slovak Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony
Orchestra of Cuba, the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg. With the
Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria under Adrian Leaper, he made the
first recording of two guitar concertos dedicated to him by Leo Brouwer
(Concierto de la Habana, 1998) and Carlos Fariñas (Concierto, 1996).
Since 1999, Joaquín Clerch has been professor of guitar at the Robert
Schumann University in Düsseldorf.



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