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Werner Hucks
12+ albums
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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 trans
