Michael Tröster (born 1956) is a

classical guitar The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string (music), string instrument with strings made of catgut, gut or nylon, it is a precursor of the ...

ist from

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. Tröster studied under Gerhard Vogt before studying with Professor Heinz Teuchert, Dieter Kirsch, Konrad Ragossnig, and Siegfried Behrend at the music academies in

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. 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 globally bec ...

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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 Americas, America extensively. He made well known arrangements of Catalan folk son ...

, 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 concerto for classical guitar 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 ...

". 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: * String instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, ...

. 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