Contact details
w.guggenberger(at)doz.hfm-trossingen.de
Phone 0821/435360
trumpet
Vita
Wolfgang Guggenberger was born in Sonthofen (Allgäu). He was 1st prize winner at the national competition "Jugend musiziert" and won the "European Prize" of the national music competitions for young people.
In 1978 he distinguished himself as a prizewinner at the renowned "German Music Competition" in Bonn.
Wolfgang Guggenberger's career was framed by numerous scholarships and cultural sponsorship awards. He completed his studies at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich with Rolf Quinque and at the Academy of Music in Trossingen with Prof. Horst-Dieter Bolz with distinction.
Forward-looking and artistically formative for him was a two-year intensive study in Chicago with Prof. Vincent Cichowicz, Adolph Herseth and Arnold Jacobs.
From 1986 to 2005 he was a trumpet teacher and head of the brass and percussion department at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich.
In 2005 he was appointed professor for trumpet at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen. Since 2018 he has also been a guest professor in the trumpet class at the Norwegian Music Academy in Oslo.
As a member of the artist list of the German Music Council, Wolfgang Guggenberger has performed as a soloist with many renowned German cultural orchestras. Concert tours and master classes have taken him to many European countries as well as to Georgia, South East Asia, America and Mexico. In addition to numerous radio recordings, Wolfgang Guggenberger has released three CDs with solo and chamber music.
In 2004 his studies for 1 or 2 trumpets "BASICS PLUS" (Rundel, Music Publications) were published, which belong to the standard repertoire of brass pedagogy. (buy online www.basicsplus.info )