Anne Haasch

The Weimar-based guitarist has made a name for herself in recent years as a sought-after soloist, chamber musician and teacher. Her studies in classical guitar took her from Mecklenburg to Weimar, where she joined the renowned class of Professor Thomas Müller-Pering (Franz Liszt University of Music). Excursions and insights into early music through Björn Colell enriched her artistic spectrum. She received groundbreaking inspiration for her music-making from Olaf Van Gonnissen, Johannes Monno, Hopkinson Smith, Nigel North and Carlo Marchione.

Anne Haasch was a special prize winner at the Verfemte Musik competition in Schwerin. There, her encounters with Holocaust survivors (Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Esther Bejarano, Ursula Mamlok, Walter Arlen, Coco Schumann) opened up a musical world of long-forgotten composers and performers. Since then, an important focus of her artistic work has been the intensive study of works by Jewish composers such as Ruth Schönthal, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Roberto Gerhard and Alexandre Tansman.

The musician has thrilled audiences in numerous concerts at home and abroad, which are always a search for new paths and lesser-known compositions. She has been a guest of the Song Makers' Guild Capetown (South Africa), the Thuringian Bach Weeks, Rhapsody in School, the Intonations Festival in Berlin, and has performed with the Hofer Symphoniker and many others.

Anne Haasch is deeply committed to chamber music and song, collaborating with clarinettist Jan Doormann (Duo Arvoredo), French mezzo-soprano Natalie Perez and tenor Julian Prégardien (LIEDSTADT), among others.

Her CD releases have been highly praised by the trade press:

‘Bach & Ponce’ was nominated for the OPUS KLASSIK award in 2023 in the categories Instrumentalist of the Year and Solo Recording of the Year. Anne Haasch was a scholarship holder of the German Music Council, the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Thuringia and the Literature Council of Thuringia, as well as a prize winner of the Hans Kauffmann Foundation.

Concert tours to Zambia and South Africa were made possible by grants from the Goethe-Institut and the GVL.

A dedicated teacher and educator, she gives masterclasses in Germany and abroad. She teaches classical guitar and chamber music at the music academies in Cologne, Weimar and Leipzig.