Various - Plays The Music From The 19Th - Henriques, Jakob (guitar)
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On this CD with virtuoso pieces for the guitar you hear music by Johann Kaspar Mertz, Antonio Giménez Manjón, Fernando Sor, Dionisio Aguado and Mauro Giuliani. The soloist Jakob Henriques was born in 1972 and received his soloist's diploma from the Royal University College of Music in Stockholm in 1997. He has been a soloist with several Swedish orchestras, including twice with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Okku Kamu and Niklas Willén.
Among his awards can be mentioned that Jakob has been awarded the maximum stipend for foreign studies from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He has won first prize and runners-up in several international guitar competitions.
Jakob has had solo recitals at music festivals in Sweden, Italy, and the US. He has participated in a handful of CDs, two of which are solo recordings with original music for guitar that can regularly be heard on the Swedish Radio. He is also often engaged as jury member at international guitar festivals in Sweden and Italy, as well as being a popular teacher of master classes at several of Sweden's conservatories. Since the spring of 2004, Jakob is the artistic director of the Swedish music festival Music Days in Gryt.
Jakob is heard also on nosag CDs 063, Schubert Lieds, on 089, Jakob Henriques, guitar and on 094, Scheherazade, together with violinist Jonas Lindgård.