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.

Dieter Hennings, a native of Mexico, was awarded the Aaron Brock Prize in 2008. The prize also includes future engagements in Canada, the US and Mexico, and a three-week residency at the Banff Centre.

Hennings is one of the few guitarists/lutenists of his generation. A graduate of the University of Arizona School of Music, where he received the Outstanding Senior Award, in Guitar Performance in 2004, Mr. Hennings is currently pursuing a double Doctoral degree in Early Plucked Instruments and Guitar Performance and Literature with Paul O'Dette at the Eastman School. Mr. Hennings has won many other prestigious competitions including the 2005 Eastman Guitar Concerto Competition, the 2002 Villa de Petrer (Spain) International Competition Ralph Stevens Guitar Competition, the 2001 Portland Guitar Competition the 1999 and 2000 Claire Schaeffer Guitar Competition.

In the field of guitar performance Dieter is deeply committed to the diffusion of new music, specially of Latin America, having recently performed works by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez and Mario Davidovsky.