Oliver Thedieck was born in 1978 in Hanover, Germany. At the age of 11 he started
learning the guitar with Rüdiger Schwarz at the Musikschule Osnabrück.
In 1999 he enrolled for the BA
Music course at Bath Spa University College where he studied with James Woodrow.
After his degree in Bath he moved to Munich, Germany in order to further his academic
and artistic career. Despite his guitar studies he takes a large interest in
composition, conducting and music education.
He has worked as a busy soloist
and chamber musician, with a special interest in contemporary music. This
enabled him to meet a great deal of composers, e.g. Tom Johnson, Graham Fitkin or Leo Brouwer.
For Florian Malecki, a Dachau-based composer, he successfully premiered his 9
studies for guitar in February 2008. The CD production and the printed sheet music
–including a synopsis by O. Thedieck- is available from the label dégagée (www.degagee.de).
Oliver Thedieck has played together with the
Bath Camerata, directed by Nigel Perrin and regularly
appeared in performances at Bath Spa University and throughout Europe and South America.
He won the Leamington Spa Music
Festival in two categories, both as soloist and with the Rodosthenous
Duo (together with the English guitarist Gordon Dunn).
He has taken part in master
classes with Odair Assad,
Leo Brouwer, Johannes Tonio
Kreusch, Friedemann Wuttke and Christian Gruber.
He wrote several pieces, one for
example being Gegensatz for Alvaro Henrique, which was premiered in Brasilia, Brazil. He also composed a work for the
British ensemble String Theory, which was performed at various festivals (e.g.
Edinburgh Fringe Festival) in England and Scotland.
Currently he is working with the Munich based flautist Barbara Kahlert. The duo is called CordAria, further info is available on www.cordaria.net.
Together with Barbara Kahlert he has performed very successful
concerts on a tour in Brazil and taught a masterclass at the
academy of music Santa Marcelina in Sao Paolo (organised through the German
Consulate, Sao Paolo).
Also he was invited to teach a
masterclass for BRAVIO at the 1st guitar festival in Brasilia, Brazil.
Oliver Thedieck is working as a
free-lance musician and guitarist in Munich. He is a tutor for classical
guitar and music theory. He currently holds a teaching position at the Haidhauser school of music, Munich and is teaching private
students.
press comments:
“Wonderful sound and perfect
balance”
BRAVIO (guitar society)
“competent and authentic”
Süddeutsche Zeitung
“highest
musical level of a new generation”
F. Mattos (guitarist and concert
organiser)
