Duo Stringendo
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Annika Lückebergfeld, mandolin, and Fabian Hinsche, guitar, are two of the most successful classical musicians on their instruments in Germany. Both have won numerous national and international prizes as soloists. They regularly perform as a duo and play double-concerts for mandolin and guitar including concerto engagements. They hold a duo scholarship by the renowned “Yehudi Menuin Foundation” in Germany and are international prize holders at the “Torneo Internazionale di Musica” in Rome/Italy. As soloists and in chamber music they have performed in venues all over Europe, Japan, Russia and the USA: the Dundee Guitar Festival (Scotland), the Gdansk Conservatory (Poland), the Takamatsu International Mandolin Festival (Japan), Gitarrenfestspiele Nürtingen, Konzerthaus Bamberg, Philharmonie Essen, Konzerthaus Berlin, Herkulessaal München (Germany), New Music Festival Dartmouth (USA), Gnessins Academy Moscow, Rimskij-Kosakow Conservatory St. Petersburg (Russia), Goethe-Institute Ankara (Turkey) and Vissani International Guitar Festival (Greece). Annika and Fabian both give international master classes and coach the JugendZupfOrchester of the state of North Rhine Westfalia (the state mandolin and guitar orchestra). They have recorded for radio and television stations, among others for “Deutschlandradio Kultur Berlin” and for “MTV”.

Music for mandolin and guitar
There is a wide stylistic range in the repertoire for the combination of mandolin and guitar as a duo. Throughout four centuries both instruments have been very popular all over Europe. During the 17th and 18th centuries they were played exclusively in the clubs of the nobility. Baroque masters like Antonio Vivaldi, Domenico Scarlatti and Georg Friedrich Haendel wrote some original compositions for mandolin/soprano lute and basso continuo. Later, on the eve of the French Revolution, Italian composers residing in Paris such as Gabriele Leone, wrote enchanting music in the gallant style. In the early 19th century, even Ludwig van Beethoven left four pieces for mandolin as did Niccolo Paganini some years later. By the end of the 19th century, especially Raffaele Calace made the typical Italian romantic style famous all over the world. His tremolo technique, a very fast repetition of notes in order to make the sound of the mandolin more expressive, still is the way of playing that people commonly connec t with Italian music. Nowadays many composers, masters from Europe as well as from the USA, South America and Japan, write interesting new music influenced by modern classical music or by folk music and jazz.