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INTERNATIONAL GUITAR STARS AS MEMBERS OF THE CURATORSHIP OF THE HERRMANN HAUSER GUITAR FOUNDATION

Pepe Romero

Guitarist , celebrated worldwide for his exciting interpretations and his flawless technique, is permanently asked for as a solo guitar player and as a guitarist with orchestra. His contributions to the area of have inspired a couple of reputable composers to write music especially for him, including Joaquín Rodrigo, , Rev. Francisco de Madina, Lorenzo Palomo and Celedonio Romero.

Born on March 8, 1944 in Malaga, , Pepe Romero is the second son of the "Royal Guitar Family", . His father, legendary Celedonio Romero, was his only guitar teacher. His first professional performance was a concert he played together with his father. He was only seven years old then.

On his current record, Songs My Father Taught Me, he plays his father´s favorite compositions. Shortly, several Boccherini Quintets for guitar and string quartet, recorded for UNICEF, will be released. A new transcription for guitar of the Música nocturna de Madrid will be amongst them. One of his last solo recordings is a brilliant performance of opera phantasies for guitar.

A recording with „I Musici“ was finished in summer 1991, and in spring 1992 he recorded Concierto de Aranjuez and selected pieces of music of Joaquín Rodrigo to laser disc, together with Neville Marriner and the Academy-of-St.-Martin-in-the-Fields. He also played a decisive role in the documentary Shadows And Light: Rodrigo At 90, which received various prizes, e.g. at the Chicago International Film Festival, the International Emmy Awards and the San Francisco International Film Festival. At the moment his discographie comprises more than 50 recordings, among them more than 20 concerts with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner and Iona Brown. Furthermore, he revitalised and premiered main works of composers like Fernando Sor, Mauro Giuliani, Francesco Molino, Fernando Carulli, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Luigi Boccherini and others. In 1983 Joaquín Rodrigo wrote his last guitar concert for Pepe Romero: Concierto para una fiesta. It was recorded by the Philips label.

Andres Segovia and composer Federico Moreno Torroba chose Pepe Romero to record the world premiere of Diálogos entre guitarra y orquesta; originally this piece of music had been written for Segovia. In January 1996, Nocturnos de Andalucia, composed by Lorenzo Palomo and coducted by Rafael Frübeck de Burgos, was premiered in Berlin. Also in 1996, after his father Celedonio had died, he played the world premiere of his father´s concert for guitar and orchestra El Cortijo de Don, with Michael Palmer conducting the American Sinfonietta.

His Majesty King of Spain dubbed Pepe Romero and his brothers Celin and Angel knight of the order "Isabel la Catolica". The official ceremony for this great honor took place at the University of Southern California on February 11, 2000, where the Romeros played a gala concert. Pepe Romero also received the "Premio Andalucia de Müsica", his country´s highest award for contributing to art. He is honorary doctor of music at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.

In the USA, Pepe Romero performed as a soloist with the symphony orchestras of Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Houston, Pittsburgh, Boston, San Francisco and Dallas as well as the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the New York and Orchstras, the , and the London Symphony Orchestra. In and Great Britain he performed with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchstra, I Musici, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonia Hungarica, the Hungarian State Orchstra, the Spanish National Orchstra, the Spanish National Broadcasting Orchstra, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the New Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, the American Sinfonietta and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchester. He was invited to be special guest at the festivals of Salzburg, Israel, Schleswig-Holstein, Menuhin, Osaka, , Istanbul, Ravinia, Garden State, Hollywood Bowl, Blossom, Wolf Trap and Saratoga.

Together with his father and his brothers Pepe Romero assisted in establishing the Romeros Quartet to be the leading classic guitar ensemble worldwide. As a member of the Romeros, he was invited to play at the White House. Furthermore he played for Pope Johannes Paul II. at the Vatikan as well as for his Royal Highness Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sophía of Spain, and Queen Beatrice of Holland.

Pepe Romero spends time on his many students and winners of international guitar contests and passes on to them his knowledge about the guitar. He was a guitar professor at various universities and instructed annual master classes at the Salzburg Summer Academy, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival and the Córdoba Guitar Festival.

Roberto Limón

Roberto Limón was born and raised in Mexico. His musical activities as a concert guitarist made him travel to countries like Spain, Greece, Portugal, Germany, Corea, the Czech Republic, Russia, Lithuania, Costa Rica, the and Mexico.

As a soloist he performed with the most important orchestras of his country as well as with the Symphony Orchestras of San Antonio and San Diego, the National Chamber Orchestra Leningrad, the Philharmonic Orchestra Seoul and the National Symphony orchestras of Lithuania and the Czech Republic.

Various composers dedicated works to Roberto Limón: Manuel Enríquez, Joaquín Gutiérrez Heras, Leonardo Velázquez, Eugenio Toussaint, William Ortíz, Alberto Nuñez Palacio, Ernesto Cordero, Dimitri Dudín, Francisco Núñez, Manuel de Elías and Meyer Kupferman.

Roberto Limón was also a member of the Angel Romero Quartet, which was conducted by Angel Romero, the famous Spanish guitarist and musician. His last recording for guitar and orchestra, Tango Mata Danzón Mata Tango, was nominated in the category “Best Classic Album” at the second annual Latin American Grammy Awards.

Additionally, his soloist interpretation and performance on that CD was assigned the prize for the best album 2001 by the „Union de Cronistas de Musica y Teatro“ in Mexico City in September 2002.

Besides his agile concert activities Roberto Limón is the Director of the „Centro Hispanoamericano de Guitarra“ and Chief of the „Orquesta de Baja California“.

PERSONAL REACTIONS TO THE WEB-SITE WWW.HAUSERGUITARS.COM AND TO THE PROCLAMATION OF THE HERRMANN HAUSER GUITAR FOUNDATION

I'm happy to find myself in your Home page. It' quite nice of you to put my article there. Please give me a little time to contribute onto your pages. I will receive your invitation to become a member of the curatorship for "Hermann Hauser Guitar Foundation". I would be very glad about future co-operation in the Foundation and I consent with your proposal. Give my best regards to Mr.Wildner. He has made beautiful pages. Congratulations, Akinobu Matsuda

Thank you for publishing my research paper on the Hauser web site. I am a guitar maker and performer. It is my dream to visit the Hauser workshop. I recently purchased a 1998 Hauser guitar. I have about 300+ photos from my research into the Hauser guitar. Mr. Hauser has had a big influence on my guitar making even though we have never met. To date I have made over 60 , but I currently build a Hauser replica based on my research. It is so close to the original. I love your web site. One of my favorites. It would be interesting to see photos of the steps of construction. One of the things I'm curious about is if he uses a mold when building the guitars. Regards, David Schramm

Your new site is very nice and very informative. I was thinking what to add to it and in my opinion you could put on your site something about Mario Escudero. He was very famous guitarist, composer and teacher and remains forever legend of flamenco guitar music. It is really very interesting that Escudero was playing flamenco on guitars made by your grandfather - Hermann Hauser I. At that time it was something extraordinary. Of course Escudero had many instruments but Hauser's was his favorites. Regards, Andrzej Glowacki

It looks a very nice website. We would like you to add our homepage address in your website as the store which sells your new guitars if possible. In the next year, we will have the Hauser Guitars Fair II at our store. Please cooperate to us and prepare many guitars for us. Best regards, Tomo Kurosawa

I’m very happy to be part of the Hauser Foundation. Of course I’ll participate and support the foundation, count with me as a guitarist, and with the Guitar Festival and the Baja California Orchestra. I’m sure that the Foundation will be a great opportunity for all guitarists and a big impulse to young luthiers. Let me know what are the following steps in the Houser Guitar Foundation, and count with me 100%. Best Regards, Roberto Limón

I wanted to add my congratulations! and best wishes for your "official" website. It really is Great! I hope all is well with everyone and you have a wonderful summer. Best Regards, Steven Decker

Your new Homepage is a wonderful representation of your family's life work. Congratulations! I'm sure it took a tremendous amount of work to create. I have told many of my students and friends about it. Sincerely yours, Francis Perry

I am very happy to hear from you and I like the idea of the Hauser Guitar Foundation very much – helping out the world of the guitar, continuing the name of Hermann Hauser Guitars. Of course, I would be delighted to give my name to become a part of your foundation. I look forward to hearing from you and Mr. Wildner and I send my congratulations on this wonderful idea. Un abrazo, Pepe Romero

A colleague directed me to your marvelous site! I am doing a huge new web site on harp guitars (including"kontragitarres"). It will be public shortly. Regards, Gregg Miner

We all love the website. I couldn't believe it. It's just fantastic!!! I will write something about the 1931 Hauser soon. Best Regards, Louis Benny

SURVEY OF COUNTRIES OF THE VISITORS OF THE WEB-SITE WWW.HAUSERGUITARS.COM

Survey for the period from April 1, 2004 thru June 18, 2004 – 32 countries

USA, Germany, , Singapour, , Mexico, Brasil, Sweden, Poland, Greece Great Britain, Italy, Slowenia, , Hungary, Russia, Switzerland, Belgium, New Zealand Hongkong, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, France, Austria, Seychelles, Taiwan Thailand, Czech Republic, Uruguay, Cocos-Islands, Romania, Turkey.