Evabeneke
Eva BenekeGuitar
Praised by the American Record Guide as "sounding beautiful, sensitive and highly expressive, with flawless technical control." (2017), Eva Beneke is a much sought-after soloist, chamber musician and arranger.
In 2018, the Berliner followed the call to professor of classical guitar at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, and also teaches in her hometown.
Her life path previously took her to the USA for over a decade, from 2007-2018, where she gathered valuable inspirations of a musical, entrepreneurial and personal nature.
In 2012 she received the title “Doctor of Musical Arts” with distinction from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she studied with Scott Tennant, Pepe Romero and the jazz legend Bruce Forman, among others.
A dedicated teaching personality, she was dedicated to building a successful guitar class at McNallySmith College of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota from 2012-2017.
She received her musical training in the concert class of Thomas Müller-Pering in Weimar and at the UdK Berlin. She has won several international competitions and has since made regular concerts around the world.
Musical highlights were engagements at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Music Festival, with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the German Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano in Berlin, Bonn, Vienna and Los Angeles. As the accompanist for singer Carrie Underwood, Beneke performed at the American Country Music Awards in Las Vegas. She accepted invitations to festivals and gave master classes in China, Peru, Mexico, Lithuania, the USA and Canada, among others.
In 2012 Guitar Salon International made it possible for her to record the album “In Dulci Jubilo - A Classical Guitar Christmas”, on which Eva Beneke can be seen both as a soloist, in a duo with Scott Tennant from the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, and as an arranger.
In 2017 followed, together with the Spanish mezzo-soprano Nerea Berraondo, a complete recording of the works of Fernando Sor for voice and guitar on the renowned classical label Naxos, which was highly praised in the American Record Guide.
Eva Beneke plays strings by La Bella and guitars by Antonio Raya Pardo (1988) and Dennis Tolz (2020).
www.evabeneke.com
Press reviews:
"Coming Home" ... deserves a place on my "special" shelf, where the outstanding CDs are - those that are listened to again and again ... "Steve Marsh, Classical Guitar Magazine (UK)
“Eva Beneke… took us in an entirely different direction and new heights. She captured the profundity and the joy of Bach in two of her own transcriptions of his music for solo violin and cello, and then poured her heart into one of her own compositions.
She is a musician to be reckoned with and we will hear more from her in the future. "
Brantford Expositor, February 9, 2012 (Canada)
“These recordings are anything but boring. Eva Beneke's playing is always beautiful, sensitive and highly expressive, with flawless technical control. "
American Record Guide, 2017 (USA)