Beschreibung

The four musicians of the Aleph Guitar Quartet are enthusiastically committed
to the music of our time. Since it was founded in 1994, the Quartet’s mission
has been to present, promote, and make headway with the musical language
and playing techniques of the 20th and 21st centuries, fueled by intensive
collaboration with composers, sound engineers, and acousticians.
In the meantime, the Aleph Guitar Quartet has helped to create a new, extensive
and future-orientated repertoire for the classical guitar which is being constantly
expanded by a large number of both renowned and younger composers.
ANDRÉS HERNÁNDEZ ALBA, TILLMANN REINBECK, WOLFGANG SEHRINGER and
CHRISTIAN WERNICKE perform regularly at such international music festivals as
MaerzMusik (Berlin), Guitar Foundation of America (USA), Eclat (Stuttgart), Styrian
Autumn (Graz), Warsaw Autumn, Archipel (Geneva), MusicadHoy (Madrid), One
Month Festival (South Korea), Klangspuren Schwaz (Austria) and Time of Music
(Viitasaari).
The Quartet is sponsored by the Cultural Office of the City of Karlsruhe, the Ernst
von Siemens Music Foundation, the Goethe Institute, the Spanish Ministry of
Culture, the Province of Baden-Württemberg and the ZKM | Hertz-Lab.

In 2023, 31 renowned composers each wrote a new, short work to mark
the quartet‘s 30th anniversary, which all have been premiered as part of the
ZeitGenuss festival at the Karlsruhe University of Music. Some of these works
are published in the 3 volume anthology ALEPH Guitar Quartet – Compositions
for its 30th Anniversary. All works are also available individually as performance
material (score and parts or performance scores), like this edition of Krampus by
Birke J. Bertelsmeier.