SÖNKE MEINEN & PHILIPP WIECHERT

With nothing but two acoustic guitars, Sönke Meinen and Philipp Wiechert create a musical world which opens up the niche of guitar music in every direction and goes well beyond just technical skills on the instrument. Sometimes full of energy, sometimes fragile and intimate, their music ranges between virtuoso fingerstyle, soulful folk and intoxicating film music. The guitars are no more than their tools to create handmade music full of ideas, colours and emotions.

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Sönke Meinen and Philipp Wiechert first met at a festival campsite when they were still teenagers, not suspecting that their shared love for the guitar would become the foundation for a close friendship and constant mutual inspiration. This was followed by studying together – and then, at first, different career paths:

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Sönke Meinen earned an outstanding reputation in the international guitar scene as a solo guitarist and as part of his duo with the Danish violinist Bjarke Falgren. He won prizes at various international competitions. Guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel called him “one of the most creative guitarists of the current guitar scene”. 

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Philipp Wiechert established himself as a highly requested theater musician and composer, among others at the Staatstheater Hannover and the Kellertheater Winterthur. He is the guitarist of the Sarah Lesch Band and also tours regularly with bass clarinettist Falk Breitkreuz.

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For Sönke Meinen and Philipp Wiechert, their different influences and approaches are by no means a barrier, but much more the foundation for their openness for different genres, their out-of-the-box approach of playing and composing and their inimitable duo sound. This is particularly evident in their new album “COCOON”, which will be released in the summer of 2023. Sönke Meinen’s and Philipp Wiechert’s music is poetic, creative and vivid, full of exciting grooves and stirring melodies.