BMG Festival '16 Friday Concert Featuring Heavy Classic

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From Germany we are proud to present ‘Heavy Classic’. With guitar, mandolin and cello this band is, to say the least, impressive! Guitar and Bass magazine sums it up nicely “innovative, atmospheric and energetic… this is the affinity between heavy metal, rock and classical music re-plumbed… outstanding musicians with a unique world sound”.

The band’s leader and founder Malte Vief is a prize-winning composer and guitarist performing on radio, television and at many concerts and festivals. Winner of the European Guitar Award at the ‘open strings competition’ he is a musician caught between the two poles of classical and rock music… his unique style has emerged and been labelled
‘Heavy Classic’.

On mandolin and mandola is Jochen Ross. An outstanding musician/mandolinist based in Hamburg and a former winner of the International mandolin competition, Jochen is no stranger to Scotland. He worked as a mandolin teacher with the Lanarkshire Guitar and Mandolin Association for 6 months and his CD, ‘The Ten Islands’ was in his own words “inspired by the beautiful country, the lovely people and the special mood in the music that reflects the rough, melancholic charm of Scotland”.

On Cello is Matthias Hübner. Scholarship holder of the ‘German Music Foundation’, Matthias was classically trained at the University of Music ‘Carl Maria von Weber’ in Dresden, he is always looking for new ways to bring the cello ‘to life’… and he does, this guy rocks!