SÖNKE MEINEN
Sönke Meinen, born in 1991 and raised in Ihlow/Northern Germany, studied under Prof. Thomas Fellow, Prof. Stephan Bormann and Reentko Dirks at the Dresden University of Music, where he held a teaching position himself from 2019 to 2022.
Sönke Meinen won numerous competitions – in 2016 he collected awards at two of the largest international guitar competitions: the well-respected “Guitar Masters” (first prize) and the “European Guitar Award“ (sponsoring prize).
Sönke Meinen is not only performing in solo concerts, but also in duo projects with Danish violin virtuoso Bjarke Falgren as well as with guitarist and theatre musician Philipp Wiechert. Bjarke Falgren’s and Sönke Meinen’s highly acclaimed duo debut album “Postcard to Self” earned two nominations for the Danish Music Awards in 2019.
Sönke Meinen lives in Hamburg.
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PHILIPP WIECHERT
Philipp Wiechert was born in 1989 in Eisenhüttenstadt and studied acoustic guitar and jazz guitar with Prof. Stephan Bormann and Reentko Dirks, also at the Dresden University of Music.
In addition to duo concerts with Sönke Meinen, Philipp Wiechert tours as guitarist and musical director of the Sarah Lesch Band and in duo projects with saxophonist and sound artist Jörg Piesendel and clarinetist Falk Breitkreuz.
He gained a high reputation as a theatre musician and composer, among others at Bad Hersfelder Festspiele, Staatstheater Hannover, Theater Junge Generation (Dresden), Theater der jungen Welt (Leipzig), and at Kellertheater Winterthur. Philipp Wiechert currently lives in Leipzig.
In addition to their musical work, Sönke Meinen and Philipp Wiechert are sought-after lecturers and workshop leaders as well as artistic directors of the Freepsum International Guitar Festival, which has been taking place annually since 2011, and of the “Gitarrennacht im Schlosspark Krumke”.