Biography
After graduating from the Stuttgart College of Music, the concert guitarist Friedemann Wuttke went on to attend the master classes of Manuel Barrueco, John Williams, David Russell and Angel and Pepe Romero. He held a lectureship at the Ludwigsburg College of Education whilst still studying. Since 1992 the performer has devoted himself exclusively to his concert activities and the production of recordings.
Gitarre Hamburg wrote in 2003:
"Not only by virtue of his instrumental and musical qualities which satisfy the highest demands has the likeable musician won a permanent place in the forefront of the German guitar scene. In particular, Friedemann Wuttke's feel for compiling interesting programmes and his fruitful collaboration with other celebrated artists ensure that he is never short of work. He is a musician who pursues a purpose."
His uncompromising devotion to a classical repertoire and to serious programme design set Friedemann Wuttke apart from many of his fellow concert guitarists. Whatever the character of the individual programme, the music which Friedemann selects gives it a organically rounded and artistically complete feel.
The well thought-out programmes ensure that he is regularly invited to take part in international music and guitar festivals and radio and television recordings. Concert tours have taken Friedemann Wuttke to almost all European countries as well as to Russia, Southeast Asia, Africa and South America, where he has appeared as a soloist or with orchestra in large concert halls. Many of his tours abroad take place at the invitation and with the support of the Goethe Institute and the German Foreign Office.
Besides various concerts in Germany the artist is invited in 2012 and 2013 for tours in America, South East Asia as well as for performances in serveral european metropolisis.
In 1998: Friedemann Wuttke gave a concert in Madrid and was invited by the ninety-seven-year-old Joaquín Rodrigo to visit him at his home in the city. Rodrigo died the following year and Friedemann Wuttke performed guitar concertos by Rodrigo on various tours at home and abroad in 2001 to pay homage to him on what would have been his hundredth birthday.
Friedemann Wuttke has toured with major ensembles and orchestras. Though his recital programmes focus mainly on Classical and Romantic works as well as Impressionist Spanish and South American music, he also performs twentieth-century compositions. Behind his versatility there is a musician who not only loves his instrument and its music, but also one who promotes musical communication and encou-rages audiences to participate in the enthusiasm his music always arouses in him.
As a concert guitarist, he has recorded exclusively on the Hänssler Profil Medien label since 2004.