Series: Guitar
Date: Friday, November 14, 2008
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Venue: Jonsson Performance Hall

Ticket Prices: $20 admission, Buy your tickets online

Free to UTD Students with UTD Photo ID at the venue box office the night of the event. Discounts are available to faculty, staff, alumni, retirees and students. Please review our ticket policy or call our box office at 972-883-2552 for details.

German guitarist Karoline Kumst began winning guitar competitions when she was only 13.  She has won 1st prize at the “Roland-Zimmer-Wettbewerb” (2000, 2002 and 2004), the “International Anna-Amalia-Gitarrenwettbewerb” (2001), the “Bundeswettbewerb Jugend musiziert” (2003) and the Heinrich-Albert-Guitar Competition (2005).  Kumst has participated in master classes with Leo Brouwer, Aniello Desiderio, Carlo Marchione, Thomas Müller-Pering, Gerhard Reichenbach, Sdrjan Tošie, Michael Tröster and other noted guitarists. 

She worked for the Ministry of Culture in Thüringen, Germany, in 2004 and 2005.  A writer at the Starnberger Merkur (Germany) claimed she “lifted her guitar in meditative spheres with a gentle poetry of sounds. In her poetical performance she seemed to be one with her instrument. With a constant and concentrated clearness she reached full-blooded, Spanish expression.”