Christian Haimel

Guitarist Christian Haimel's expressive and versatile interpretations – ranging from renaissance to contemporary music – have earned lots of praise, even in young years.“I have seen very few young musicians who have impressed me as much as Christian. He is already a beautiful guitar player and I am sure he has a brilliant future”, internationally renowned Scottish guitarist David Russell praised Christian Haimel at his master class 2006. Christian's first CD, on which he plays works by Mauro Giuliani, Manuel Maria Ponce, William Walton and a first recording of a work by Jan Truhlar, was released in December 2007. His debut album was well received in Austria and abroad, also winning the Pasticcio Prize, awarded by Oe1, the Austrian national broadcaster's classical music radio station. Following Christian Haimel's 2001 concert at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Austrian daily ‘Die Presse’ wrote: “Heaven knows it does not happen every day that a guitarist is responsible for a profound silence among the audience of a Viennese concert hall. The 19-year-old Christian Haimel has succeeded in that ... he conjures up subtly differentiated colors and moods ... he makes his instrument sing.” Christian's career path manifested itself early. After beginning to learn how to play guitar with Josef Waidhofer at the age of six he studied with Marianne Waidhofer at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz, from which he graduated with honours in 2007. In 2014 he completed the “Master in Classical Guitar Performance” with “Summa cum Laude" in Alicante, Spain.He rounded off his musical education by studies of classical voice training which highly complements his guitar playing by knowledge of interpretation and tone production. During his studies Christian Haimel attended master classes by internationally renowned guitarists such as David Russell, Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer and Abel Carlevaro. Christian won first national and international acclaim at competitions in Austria's Vienna, Salzburg, Linz and Rust, Kutna Hora (Czech Republic), Weimar (Germany), the Greek island of Crete, in Kiev (Ukraine) and Bath (UK), among others.Christian performed at concerts – both as a soloist and as chamber musician – at international festivals in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, the United States, Chile, South Korea and Russia.He also teaches guitar at the municipal music school in Linz in his home province Upper Austria. This season, 2012/13 he taught in substitution a classical guitar class at Anton Bruckner Private University Linz.