Urbaan Reiter plays Bach, Sor and Hoppstock (Allan Willcocks)

Program:

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite n. 3 BWV 1009
I. Prelude
VI. Gigue

Fernando Sor (1778-1839)
Introduction et variations op. 9

Tilman Hoppstock/Allan Willcox (1961)
12 impressionistic sketches for guitar

Urbaan Reiter was born on the 30th of June 2003 in Slovenj Gradec in Slovenia. He started playing the guitar at the age of seven.

Urbaan Reiter began his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz in 2017 as a student of the highly gifted course and is now in the preparatory course in the class of prof. Paolo Pegoraro.

During regular schooling, Urbaan constantly improved his knowledge by attending masterclasses with well known professors. Such as: Anders Miolin, Xhevdet Sahatxhija, Marco Tamayo, Giampaolo Bandini, Gabriel Bianco, Lukasz Kuropaczewski, Dale Kavanagh, Rafaela Smits, Costas Cotsiolis, Roberto Aussel, Pepe Romero, Carlo Marchione, Judicaël Perroy, Thomas Kirchhoff, Lorenzo Micheli, Timo Korhonen, Paolo Pegoraro, Manuel Barrueco, Petrit Çeku, Gerhard Reichenbach.

He will always have great memories of when he permormed before the concert of Pepe Romero in Zagreb in 2017.

Up untill now Urbaan has participated at 29 guitar festivals and competitions and has won 24 first prizes, two second prizes and three third prizes.
His most most important achievements are:

Michele Pittaluga junior, in Alessandria (Italy), 1st prize,1st place

XIII European Classical Guitar Competition “Enrico Mercatali” Gorizia (Italy) II. category, 1st prize, 1st place
( 100 points ),

13. Ana Amalia guitar competition for young guitarists in Weimar (Germany) 1st prize in the 1st category

Forum Gitarre Wien 2018 / 21. Internationalen Jugendwettbewerb, 1st prize

14. Ana Amalia Wettbewerb fur junge Gitarristen in Weimar, 1st prize in the 2nd category