Evabeneke
Prof. Dr. Eva Beneke classic Guitar
Praised by the American Record Guide as "beautifully resonant, sensitive, and highly expressive, with flawless technical control" (2017), Eva Beneke is a highly sought-after soloist, chamber musician, and arranger.
In 2018, the Berlin native answered the call to become a professor of classical guitar at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, while also teaching in her hometown. Prior to this, she spent over a decade, from 2007-2018, in the United States, where she gained valuable inspiration of musical, entrepreneurial, and personal nature.
In 2012, she was awarded a Doctor of Musical Arts degree with distinction from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she studied with Scott Tennant, Pepe Romero, and jazz legend Bruce Forman, among others.
As a dedicated teacher, she devoted herself to building a successful guitar class at McNallySmith College of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota from 2012-2017.
She received her musical education in the concert class of Thomas Müller-Pering in Weimar, as well as at the UdK Berlin. Since winning multiple international competition awards, she has regularly pursued global concert engagements.
Musical highlights of Eva Beneke's career include engagements at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Music Festival, with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the German Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano in Berlin, Bonn, Vienna, and Los Angeles. As accompanist to singer Carrie Underwood, Beneke performed at the American Country Music Awards in Las Vegas. She has been invited to festivals and given masterclasses in China, Peru, Mexico, Lithuania, the USA, and Canada.
In 2012, Guitar Salon International enabled her to record the album "In Dulci Jubilo - A Classical Guitar Christmas", on which Eva Beneke can be heard as a soloist, in duets with Scott Tennant of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, and as an arranger.
In 2017, together with Spanish mezzo-soprano Nerea Berraondo, she recorded the complete works of Fernando Sor for voice and guitar for the prestigious classical label Naxos, which was highly praised by the American Record Guide, among others.
Eva Beneke plays La Bella strings and guitars by Antonio Raya Pardo (1988) and Dennis Tolz (2020).
Press reviews:
"Coming Home" ... deserves a place on my "special" shelf, where the outstanding CDs stand - those that are listened to again and again..." Steve Marsh, Classical Guitar Magazine (UK)
"Eva Beneke... took us in an entirely different direction and new heights. She captured the profundity and the joy of Bach in two of her own transcriptions of his music for solo violin and cello, and then poured her heart into one of her own compositions. She is a musician to be reckoned with and we will hear more from her in the future." Brantford Expositor, February 9, 2012 (Canada)
"These recordings are anything but boring. Eva Beneke's playing is always beautifully resonant, sensitive, and highly expressive, with flawless technical control." American Record Guide, 2017 (USA)
www.evabeneke.com
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