Beata Huang

Last Updated (Friday, 18 June 2010 15:34) Written by Jacob Friday, 18 June 2010 07:21

Beata Bedkowska-Huang is currently one of the most important figures on the Polish guitar scene. She began studing the guitar under the tutoring of Prof. Edmund Jurkowski at the Musical College in Katowice, from which she graduated with honors in 1990 under tutor Wanda Palacz. As DAAD-scholarship holder she studied in Freiburg, Germany with Sonja Prunnbauer. With highest marks and distinctions she completed in 1994 her postgraduate studies and than in 1996 the final “Concertstage” diploma, reserved only for a strictly limited circle of distinguished, promising students at this academy.

She developed her skills at master classes conductet by such outstanding guitarist as David Russell, Wolfgang Lendle, Thomas Müller-Pering and David Starobin. Beata Bedkowska-Huang has been awarded many top prizes in international competitions like the International Guitar Competition in Tychy (Poland); the Musical Competition in Freiburg (Germany); the Guitar Competition in Munich (Germany) (Hochschulewettbewerb); the International Guitar Competition “Francisco Tárrega” in Benicasim (Spain); the international Guitar Competition Tredrez-Locquemeau (France); the International Guitar Competition in Gargnano (Italien). She is a frequent teacher of master-classes and regularly performs as a solist in Europe and North America.