Dimitri Lavrentiev ‘Freedom’

The exceptional guitarist from Augsburg teaches at the Leopold Mozart College of Music at the University of Augsburg and is co-organiser of the Augsburg Guitar Festival.

Dimitri Lavrentiev is many things, but above all one thing: highly entertaining!

The Russian guitar virtuoso is not only a master of his instrument, but also a master of casual storytelling.

He playfully switches from fascinating original compositions to fiery Spanish guitar music to passionate Argentine tango and humorous, subtle stories from his life as a guitarist.

www.dimitrilavrentiev.com

PRESS:

"Dreamy, playful, atmospheric and always good for a surprise.

Neue Szene 12/2023

‘Lightness, humour, melodic diversity, virtuosity and imagination also characterise his first exclusively self-composed album, Trip To Mars – the work of a musician who has truly reinvented himself.’

Acoustic Guitar 2/2022

‘Dreamlike rhythmic confidence, consistently outstanding quality of original compositions and consistently strong melodies make this journey through space a thoroughly enjoyable experience.’

Acoustic Guitar 1/2022

‘Dimitri Lavrentiev plays with emotion and energy, sometimes almost overshadowing his outstanding technique, which allows this music to flow and provides an easy listening experience in the best sense of the word.’

Guitar & Bass 2/2022 

Neo-classical and romantic music for guitar

Stefan Grasse developed his current programme in the context of current events. Crises and upheavals awaken a longing for security and an ideal world. This makes music all the more important and effective in offering emotional protection and inner balance. This pause for reflection and contemplation has always been an inspiration for romantic art and music. Evening moods and moonlight are motifs on the threshold between reality and dreams. A twilight, elusive state in which our ego finds peace.

Stefan Grasse plays romantic music that transports and enchants us. He performs his own neo-classical compositions and selected works by Tárrega, Barrios, Chopin and Satie.

The internationally renowned and award-winning guitarist promises a concert experience reminiscent of a quiet summer evening on the beach. 

Floating tones that play with the transparent blue of the sky like the pastel-coloured light of the setting sun. A serenade of dusk, through dreams and time.

Guitarist Stefan Grasse studied jazz and classical guitar in Munich, Nuremberg, Salzburg and Glasgow. He has received numerous awards, including a cultural promotion prize from the City of Nuremberg in 1996, the cultural prize from the Kulturforum Franken in 2004 and the cultural promotion prize from the district of Middle Franconia in 2018. By 2025, Stefan Grasse had given well over 3,000 concerts in many European countries, Australia, Argentina, China, Turkey and the USA. Since 1993, Stefan Grasse has released 21 albums under his own name. In addition to his work as a concert guitarist and composer, he is the artistic director of the ‘Nuremberg Guitar Nights’.

Tobias Föhrenbach (recitation)

Stefan Grasse (guitar)

Christmas baubles

Music and literature for Advent

Entertaining, humorous and contemplative – that's the best way to describe the Advent programme presented by BR speaker Tobias Föhrenbach and guitarist Stefan Grasse. With their literary and musical contributions, the two protagonists bounce ideas off each other like shiny Christmas baubles. The carefully selected prose and poetry create an atmospheric Advent season, sensitively framed by the music.

Familiar Christmas carols are rearranged as bossa nova, rumba or son. These are complemented by solemn baroque music by J. S. Bach and romantic works by Frédéric Chopin and Francisco Tárrega. Tobias Föhrenbach and Stefan Grasse present their magnificently coordinated arts for enjoying the ‘quiet time’ of the year!

Tobias Föhrenbach is known as the presenter of various radio and television programmes on Bayerischer Rundfunk. Stefan Grasse has given well over 3,000 concerts in many countries in Europe, the USA, China, Argentina and Australia. He has received cultural awards from the city of Nuremberg and the district of Middle Franconia, among others.

Tobias Föhrenbach is known as the presenter of various radio and television programmes on Bayerischer Rundfunk. He studied speech arts and communication education at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. Since then, he has performed as a speech artist on cabaret and theatre stages throughout Germany and as the presenter of ‘Klassik Open-Air Nürnberg’.

Stefan Grasse studied jazz and classical guitar and has won various awards. By 2025, he had given well over 3,000 concerts in many European countries, Australia, Argentina, China, Turkey and the USA. Since 1993, he has released 21 albums under his own name. In addition to his work as a concert guitarist and composer, Stefan Grasse is also the artistic director of the ‘Nuremberg Guitar Nights’.