Peter Finger will be delighting audiences with acoustic guitar music at the International Guitar Festival in the Kunsthalle Kühlungsborn on August 23.
Peter Finger - Acoustic Music
Peter Finger - no one who is even slightly interested in guitar music, or even better: acoustic guitar music, can avoid this name. Today, he is the integrative figure of the German acoustic guitar scene.
Peter Finger has enjoyed an outstanding reputation as an acoustic guitarist worldwide since the seventies, and the international trade press has repeatedly elevated him to the pantheon of the world's best guitarists. An appreciation that one is happy to endorse if one has only heard one of his 17 record productions to date. Countless tours have taken the established musician around the globe; acclaimed performances in Europe, the USA, Japan etc. are just some of the musical milestones of this extraordinary artist.
Peter Finger has achieved something that is rarely seen these days: The perfect harmony of virtuosity, musicality and composition. His musical cosmos is boundless, testifying to a profound knowledge of music history and the contemporary. The attentive listener will repeatedly come across the musical language of Debussy, Ravel or Stravinsky - and in the same breath may find himself in rocky realms, seduced to "string leaps" into the wide world of jazz. Or he marvels at Finger's almost orchestral, sometimes breathtakingly experimental weave of rhythm, harmony and melody. There are few who achieve such a perfect symbiosis and integration of compositional depth, technical virtuosity and far-reaching musical vision.
It should be noted that all of this blends together organically and does not merely stand side by side without any connection. This is why Peter Finger's music is always a sensual delight far removed from any intellectual coolness. Sophisticated and stimulating at the same time. The fact that Peter Finger has won several first prizes in composition competitions and runs a studio with an excellent reputation is hardly surprising in view of such a varied artistic biography. On the other hand, Peter Finger has also made a name for himself as a committed publisher and label boss: In addition to his work as publisher of the magazine "Akustik Gitarre", he gathers a host of top-class artists around him on his multi-award-winning label "Acoustic Music Records", now the world's largest record label focusing on the acoustic guitar.
