Lucian Plessner, biography

Lucian Plessner is one of the very few guitarists worldwide, who have managed to establish
themselves internationally in the recent years. He has performed from San Francisco to Moscow,
and has played in prestigious concert halls like the Musikhalle Hamburg,and the Konzerthaus
Vienna. From 1996 on he has been invited to Moscow six times to events such as the
"Ernst Lubitsch Retrospective" at the Film Museum, where he accompanied the silent film
"Carmen" live, or the Festival "Moscow Autumn" where he performed exclusively contemporary music.
In St. Petersburg he gave the first solo recital ever in the famous Smolny Cathedral.
Lucian Plessner, encouraged and authorized by the great master himself, created a sensation with his
arrangements of music by Leonard Bernstein, featuring pieces from West Side Story, MASS and
others for solo guitar.
In 1994 he performed this repertoire for Lord Yehudi Menuhin in person at his birthday celebration.
In the same year he appeared in international festivals such as the "Kfar Blum Chambermusic
Festival, Israel", and the "Settimani Musicali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore" where he shared the
platform with renowned artists like Vladimir Ashkenazy, Shlomo Mintz and Mstislav Rostropowich.
As a resident in Andalusia (1982-1987), he earned international attention, when a Spanish concert agency
arranged a country-wide concert tour of guitar recitals for him-a remarkable tribute for a foreign virtuosto.
Alexis Weissenberg recommended him to Alicia de Larrocha, with whom he worked on his entire
Spanish concert repertoire.

Der Mannheimer Morgen wrote about Lucian Plessner:
"Guitar Magic - only a guitar, but what an artist! You met an artist, whose infinite skill is to never
strain for effect…intensification above all, even when his fingers rush breathtakingly over the
fingerboard. The comparison with Segovia is evident. (24.11.1997)

With his unconventional concert programs Lucian Plessner represents highly original interpretations to
the music world.

All Bach Recital the entire lutework by J.S.Bach in one night.

With Oscar Winner actor Klaus Maria Brandauer he performes a series of Literature-Music-Dialog
recitals such as:
"Platero and I" an Andalusian elegy for narrator and guitar
"Ein Atheist von Gottes Ganden" (An Atheist of God’s Mercy) from the memoires of Luis Buñuel
"Halifax and Biwifax" an unconventional Christmas program (Klaus Maria Brandauer starred in European
productions like the Istavan Szabo trilogy Mephisto, Oberst Redl, Hanussen, US: 007 Never Say Never,
Out of Africa, The Russia House and many others)

Bach - Falú
a demanding, sensual-temperamental combination of two different worlds in one recital - German Baroque
meets Argentinian Folklore

Inkaflute and Bach Tour Germany fall 2004
arrangements of Argentinian music and Bach for guitar,sikus, quena and charango with virtuoso
Raúl Olarte from Buenos Aires

Lates Project
Ein Lichtkonzert mit Bach
The Lutework by Johann Sebastian Bach with a light premiered at Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal,
Germany on May 9th 2006