Rainer Luckhardt: Diabelli-Contest 2016

Rainer Luckhardt Born 1951 in Wuppertal, Germany
1967 High school, then 3 1/2-year apprenticeship as a biology lab technician.
1971 - 1977 Studied classical guitar, first at Bergisch Conservatory Wuppertal, starting in 1973 at the Academy of Music and Drama
1977 Artistic exam while studying, first experience with music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, interest in and learning the lute

1977 Music teacher at various music schools for guitar and lute,
1977 Concerts at home and abroad as a lutenist / continuo player, radio and television recordings
1983-84 Postgraduate studies for lute and basso continuo at the Scola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel) Switzerland
parallel to that, further courses and studies at international summer courses (for example, Innsbruck, Austria; Urbino, Italy, etc.)

1985 Establishment of the Seicento Sheet Music Delivery and Seicento Edition (specialist publisher of early music, especially lute)
Since 1989 Creation and production of own programs with literature and ancient music (with soprano Sibylle Schaible and/or the ensemble “Passo e Mezzo”)