Joaquín Clerch [SEP] place of birth
Joaquín Clerch
Joaquín Clerch (born 1965 in Havana, Cuba) is a classical guitarist and composer. He was a close friend and protégé of Cuban guitarist and composer Leo Brouwer. Clerch's composition "Yemaya" won first prize in both the 1987 National Cuban Composition Competition and the 1987 Toronto International Guitar Competition. He currently resides in Düsseldorf, Germany where he is a Professor of Guitar at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf (Robert Schumann University Düsseldorf).
Biography.
Clerch was born in 1965 in Havana
orchestras as the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Slovak Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba, the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg. With the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria under Adrian Leaper, he made the first recording of two guitar concertos dedicated to him by Leo Brouwer (Concierto de la Habana, 1998) and Carlos Fariñas (Concierto, 1996). Since 1999, Joaquín Clerch has been appointed as a professor of guitar at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf. He