Jürgen Rost (born 7 March 1945)
[Press release on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 2015: https://www.hfm-weimar.de/de/journalisten/pressemitteilungen/detailansicht.html?tx_jobase_pi2%5BjoNewsDetail%5D=728&tx_jobase_pi2%5BjoRefererId%5D=142&tx_jobase_pi2%5Baction%5D=news&tx_jobase_pi2%5Bcontroller%5D=Elements&cHash=b0689035b749d16ebfdb9c03fbd9a444 ] is a classical guitarist and was Professor of Guitar at
The Liszt School of Music Weimar, Germany.
Rost was born in
Jena
Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a popu ...
and studied under Roland Zimmer and Ursula Peter at the Liszt School of Music Weimar.
He has won many competitions, both national and international, and his performances include television, radio, commercial recordings and live concerts in many countries,
performing both solo and in a duo with his wife,
Monika Rost
Monika Rost (born 21 February 1943)Józef Powroźniak: ''Gitarren-Lexikon'' (Berlin: Verlag Neue Musik, 1986), p.180. is a classical guitarist, lute player and musicologist. She studied with Ursula Peter at the Liszt School of Music Weimar, Germany ...
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He became Professor of Guitar at the Liszt School of Music and taught a number of successful performers,
including Thomas Fellow,
Venci Pavlov,
Karoline Kumst,
Magdalena Kaltcheva,
Nora Buschman, Petr Saidl
and the
Kaltchev Guitar Duo Ivo and Sofia Kaltchev.
In 1993, together with his wife, he initiated the Anna Amalia Guitar Competition in Weimar. He retired in 2010 and today teaches exceptional students at the Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere.
References
1945 births
German classical guitarists
German male guitarists
Musicians from Jena
Living people
Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar
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