Biography
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Born
23 January 1962 (age 63)
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Born In
Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Werner Hucks (born January 23, 1962 in Duisburg) is a German guitarist from Siegen.
Hucks studied at the Cologne University of Music from 1981 to 1988, became the first graduate music teacher for jazz guitar in Germany in 1986, and obtained his artistic diploma in 1988 under Eddy Marron. He has been active as a concert guitarist and studio musician since the early 1980s. His repertoire ranges from classical guitar literature to jazz. He has performed his solo program in the USA, Swaziland, Namibia, South Africa, and many European countries.
In the field of jazz, he has worked with Charlie Mariano, Jiggs Whigham, Ack van Rooyen, and Lee Konitz, among others; in the pop field, he has worked with, for example, Charlie Mariano, Jiggs Whigham, Ack van Rooyen, and Lee Konitz. B. with Dieter Falk, Ralf Gustke and Wolfgang Schmid and in the Christian music scene with Manfred Siebald, the ERF, Siegfried Fietz, Jan Vering, Hartmut & Johannes Nitsch, Clemens Bittlinger, Helmut Jost and many others. From 1996 to 1999 he played first guitar in the musicals Les Miserables in Duisburg and in Elisabeth in Essen. In this context, several musical CD recordings were made.
Hucks forms a jazz duo with the trumpeter Martin Reuthner. In 2007, to mark Paul Gerhardt's 400th birthday, he worked with the singer Werner Hoffmann on a concert and CD project Breit' aus die Flügel beide. He has released 16 albums to date, about half of the pieces of which he wrote himself. The others are mostly his transcriptions of works by Johann Sebastian Bach or choral arrangements. Every now and then, compositions and arrangements by his father Walter Hucks, whose guitar he now plays, appear in his concerts.
Among other things, he has been on the road with the theologian Margot Käßmann to concert readings. He has been a guitarist during all of Heino's church concert tours. He has organized joint concert evenings with the singer and journalist Christoph Zehendner. Since 2017, Hucks has presented the program Luther & Lindenberg - Two Germans for a Hallelujah with the theologian and writer Uwe Birnstein.
Werner Hucks lives with his wife in Siegen-Niederschelden and teaches guitar at the Fritz Busch Music School in Siegen.
Discography
WH1 On the road, MC, 1985
WH2 …to Ellington (with Jiggs Whigham, trombone), MC, 1986
WH3 From Bach… (with Peter Reichen, flute), MC 1986
Flute and guitar (with Peter Reichen), CD, MC, ERF 1987
Relaxed, CD, LP, MC, 1988
Midnite Blue, CD, LP, MC, 1990
Classic Guitar: J. S. Bach, CD, MC, 1991
Classic Guitar: Mauro Giuliani, CD, MC, 1992
Dreamtime (with Helmut Jost, Martin Stoeck, Mario Argandoña, Charlie Mariano), CD, 1993
Classical melodies, guitar & orchestra, CD, 1993
Romantic Guitar, CD, 1997
Dance of the strings (with Frieder Jost, Lothar Kosse and Peter Vanielik-Schneider), 2002
Fascination Guitar (with Ralf Gustke, Helmut Jost and Wolf Codera), 2004
String Journey (with Helmut Jost and Ralf Gustke), 2006
Friendship (with Martin Reuthner), 2008
Werner Hucks 50+, 2012
Commit your ways to the Lord 2020
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