Presented by The Roger Smith Hotel
Co-Sponsored by New York City Classical Guitar Society
Frank Wallace and John Olson, co-curators

Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue
New York City (see map)

Tickets $15. For reservations, email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or call (212) 755-1400.

"...she is truly outstanding. Listening to this exquisite playing, you understand who Pia Gazarek-Offermann is. She has a great sensibility in her phrasing and she has her own special sound, extremely pure. This helps her to convey to the listener a world of inner poetry..." - Classical Guitar

Guitarist Pia Gazarek-Offermann began playing the violin at the age of four. Her music education was at the Spezialschule füaut;r Musik in Wernigerode. She then studied classical guitar with Prof. Thomas Offermann and Jens Wagner at several Musikhochschulen in Berlin, Weimar and Bremen. In addition to her guitar studies she was a member of the internationally renowned Youth Radio Choir of Wernigerode and the international prize-winning Vocal Consort Weimar. Her musical and artistic formation continued to include Masterclasses with Roberto Aussel, David Russell and Hopkinson Smith and many others. In 1994 she was a prize-winner at the International Classical Guitar Competition in Cracow, Poland.

Pia Gazarek-Offermann has given concerts in several European countries as well as in Asia and North America. She currently teaches in Berlin and is active as a jurist and teacher at several international competitions and festivals.

"...Exceedingly demanding, the music shone scrupulously on key and was full of such splendid finesse that the audience didn't know whether it was coming or going... With hard glissandi and rapid runs Pia Gazarek-Offermann seemed to want to beat the truth out of her guitar...she conjured a cornucopia of atmospheric pictures - intoxicating... - Bonner Rundschau