Guitarra a Seis
Biography Guitarra a Seis
Guitarra a Seis
The ensemble Guitarra a Seis (Portuguese: guitar for six) was founded in 2011. Six renowned soloists from Switzerland, Germany, Poland and Brazil, who have won numerous prizes at international competitions, joined forces to discover new worlds of sound for the guitar.
With the instruments, some specially developed for them, they reach a range of five and a half octaves. This gives the ensemble the opportunity to play even orchestral works without octaves. The cast is supplemented by various percussion instruments.
The musicians play their own arrangements from Bach to Frank Zappa, Sergio Assad also wrote the piece "Juan Sebastian's Bar", Tobias Krebs the "Swinging Sextet" and Atanas Ourkouzounov the "Codex Bulgaricus" for Guitarra a Seis, the Italian virtuoso and arranger Carlo Marchione made arrangements of Rossini's overture “L'Italiana in Algeri” and the orchestral work “Ma mère l'oye” by Maurice Ravel for the ensemble.
