Harald Lillmeyer

Guitar

* 1959; guitarist; studied contemporary chamber music together with Susanne Hilker at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, where both passed their final artistic examination with distinction in 1988 and received the Folkwang-Förderpreis. From 1989 the guitar duo worked with Rolf Riehm and went on a South American tour with him for the Goethe-Institut in 1990; concerts took the two to the Insel Hombroich, the Jazzfestival Leipzig and the Guitar Week Dublin, among others. In 1999 he taught at the Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium in Munich. On the albums Portrait Wolfgang Hufschmidt (1995) and Rolf Riehm: Compositions for Guitar (1999) he takes part in Hufschmidt’s Trio II and “Engel der Geschichte (II) Flötentöne Nr. XVI” and plays Riehm’s works for two guitars with Susanne Hilker as well as, solo, the “Notturno für die trauerlos Sterbenden”.