Christian Gruber and Peter Maklar live in Bavaria/Germany and have been working together as a guitar duo since 1985. They met during their studies in Augsburg and Heidelberg/Mannheim under Helmut Hehl and Walter Schumacher-Löffler. Master courses directed by Alvaro Pierri, Leo Brouwer, Sergio & Odair Assad, and Angelo Gilardino put the finishing touches to their professional training.

Their international career began when they won first prize at the International Contest for Guitar Duos in Montélimar/France in 1991. Numerous invitations to concerts and festivals led them to give concerts all over the world. The magazine Guitar Review wrote about their concert at the Manhattan School of Music in December 2000: “Their technique is spectacular, their musical understanding cannot be overstated, their ensemble playing is outstanding and, as they proved in a magnificent evening of music at the Manhattan School of Music, they deserve to be recognized as one of the finest guitar duos in the world.”

Besides participating in recordings of music by Dusan Bogdanovic, Canticles and And Yet on the Doberman-Yppan label, they have issued 4 CDs to date: Cantos de España (aureavox), Iberia (SIG 100-00), Attacca (SIG X68-00), Gruber & Maklar (SIG X43-00).

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