Helmut Rauscher
Helmut Rauscher is a member of several guitar duos, such as the South German Guitar Duo, which in addition to extensive concert activities can look back on numerous radio and television recordings with SDR, SWF, SWR, ZDF, Südwest 3, Radio France and Czech Radio. The duo has so far recorded five CDs. Further CD recordings have been released with the Advance Guitar Quartet, the South German Chamber Trio, the Calw Guitar Ensemble and Duo Paraboles. As a soloist he recorded the CDs “Meridional” (with South American music) and “Suites and Fantasies” (with works by Bach, Kellner and Milan). Helmut Rauscher studied with Prof. Dr. Mario Sicca at the Stuttgart University of Music, where he passed the artistic final examination. His artistic training was rounded off by attending numerous master classes, for example with John Williams, Manuel Barrueco and Oscar Ghiglia.
As a sought-after guitar lecturer, he received teaching assignments at the music schools in Renningen and Calw, at the Ludwigsburg University of Education and at the Baden-Württemberg State Music Council.
Many of his students have won first prizes at national and international competitions as well as at the national competition “Jugend musiziert”. Concert tours have taken him to Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, Cyprus, Sicily, Greece, the Czech Republic, Mallorca, Madeira and the Canary Islands.
