Guido Bungenstock can be heard as a session guitarist on numerous rock and pop productions and live musician for international artists like  Jack Thammarat, Vinai Trinateepakdee, Onita Boone, Terri Green, Kosho (Söhne Mannheims), Rick Latham (Edgar Winter), Uli Kusch (Helloween, Masterplan), Benny Greb, Otto Waalkes, Frank Briggs, Sylvan, Fanfields (Toto Tribute) etc. Together with his Rock band Taurus he’s frequently making gigs in Germany.

Shared the festival stages with Uli Jon Roth, Randy Hansen, Marcus Deml, Asia, Jethro Tull, Fish, Blind Ego and more.

Guido completed his studies at the Munich Guitar Institute and has over 25 years experience as a private teacher, guest lecturer at the Hamburg School Of Music Music and other schools . He operates as workshop lecturer introducing his Modern Rock Guitar concept all over  Germany. He also worked as a Guitar Instructor and created over 130 videos for one of the biggest Guitar Online platform on guitarmasterclass.net .

Guido is supported by Kemper Amps | Elixir Strings | T-Rex Effects | Deeflexx | Hawk Picks | König Gitarrenbau | Guitars Upgrade | No.1 Guitar Center | Guitarmasterclass | Bobby’s Backing Tracks | Guitar Pro | Winspear Cables | Anytune

He’s also one of the worldwide’s Top 10 Kemper Amp Profiles makers and the long list of his users includes prominent names such as Michael Wagener (Metallica, Queen, Alice Cooper, Janet Jackson), Marco Sfogli (Dave LaRue), In Flames and many more.

Multiple Grammy winner Toto‘s Steve Lukather, Blues Fusion God Ray Gomez and Jimi Hendrix emulator Randy Hansen give Guido’s performances and playing high accolades.

Cooperation with: Otto Waalkes, Marcus Deml, Jack Thammarat, Kosho, Bobby Parrs, Uli Kusch, Fanfields (Toto Tribute), Onita Boone, Benny Greb, Sylvan, Mamma Mia Musical, Nathalie Dorra, Dante Thomas, Ole Soul, Crossroads Hamburg e.V., Terri Green, Rick Latham, Vinai Trinateepakdee, Frank Briggs,  Kit Walker, Raimund Burke, Fran Merante, div. TOP 40 & Galabands in Europa, Catch the Rainbow Tribute, Frank Steffen Mueller, Fabian Ratsak, Mickey Meinert, Zsuzsa Magyar, Loft Studios, Art of Music Studio, Hamburg School of Music, VIP Guitar, Abenteuer Musik, Modern Rock Guitar Workshop, Intenium Online Games, Angie’s Night Club Band, Clinics & Presentations Musikmesse Frankfurt.

Combining athletic virtuosity and lyrical expressionism, Gregory Wanamaker’s music has been called “achingly beautiful” (Palm Beach Daily News), “compelling” (Audiophile Audition) “outstanding” (American Record Guide) “cutting-edge” (Tallahassee Democrat) and “a technical tour de force” (Fanfare).

Gregory’s earliest musical training began at age 6 in professional summer stock theater companies, and continued through both schooled and self-guided explorations through the American folk music of the 1960s, bebop and free jazz, and Western classical music of the late 20th century. He continues his study of sounds to those from around the world, to draw from a variety of musics to inform his continually evolving voice.

His music has been commissioned and performed all over the world by soloists and ensembles including PRISM Quartet, Akropolis Reed Quintet, Trujillo Symphony Orchestra, Capitol Quartet, Timothy McAllister, Robert Spring, Christopher Creviston, Oren Fader, Masato Kumoi Saxophone Quartet, The MAVerick Ensemble, Velocity2, The Donald Sinta Quartet, The Gregg Smith Singers, janus trio, Deborah Bish, The Three Reeds Duo, Lynn McGrath, and The Society for New Music.

Fluent in all musical media, Wanamaker’s best-known works are his chamber works that exploit unique timbral characteristics and technical extensions of wind instruments. To date, his virtuosic Duo Sonata for clarinet and saxophone has received over 300 performances world-wide and is featured on five commercial recordings. His Sonata deus sax machina is one of the required pieces for finalists of the 2014 Adolphe Sax International Competition in Dinant, Belgium.

Gregory Wanamaker’s multimedia collaboration with 2013 MacArthur Fellowship Award Winner Carrie Mae Weems, A Story Within a Story, was commissioned in 2011 by the Syracuse-based Society for New Music, and was supported in part by a National Endowment for the Arts 2011 Access to Artistic Excellence Grant. He also is the recipient of a 2012 Individual Artist Commission from The New York State Council on the Arts and 20 consecutive standard awards from ASCAP in addition to awards from the National Association of Composers/USA and Britten-On-The-Bay.

Gregory also collaborates with the British award-winning director and writer, Garth Bardsley, with whom he has composed several substantial works. Their Adirondack Songs for chorus and large wind ensemble is available on Mark Records. Their new work Laude! for choir and orchestra, will be premiered in December 2016 at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, NY for broadcast on PBS affiliate stations.

Wanamaker currently serves as Professor of Composition at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam where he has taught since 1997. He studied composition with William Averitt, Thomas Albert, Anthony Branker and Ladislav Kubík.

Gregory Wanamaker has several recorded works on several labels including Innova, Albany, Centaur, Blue Griffin, Mark Custom, White Pine, and Summit. He publishes his own music, which is available exclusively through this website.

Woodwind performer, composer, arranger and educator based in Upstate New York.

Recent winner of the American Prize (Professional Band Composers Division), Kyle Kindred (b.1978 - he/him) is Professor and Director of Composition Studies at the Sam Houston State University School of Music. His melodramatic and occasionally theatrical musical works have been performed throughout the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, and South America. Kindred’s original music currently serves as the score for the LEGO Harry Potter and the Transgender Witch series available on YouTube. Other recent projects include Symphony No. 1 for Winds and Percussion: The Remnant (2021 American Prize Winner) and a trio for clarinet, cello, and piano called Sleeping Bear which was premiered at the International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest 2021. 

Kindred is currently developing a full-length musical, Ruffled Flourishes, with former Deputy White House Spokesman Peter Roussel (based on Roussel’s novel of the same name). He is a featured composer in the GIA Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series as well as a contributing author for GIA Publications’ Composers on Composing for Band, Volume 4, edited by Mark Camphouse.

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