Dennis van Rooyen is a classical and electric guitarist interested in the potentialities of composed and improvised music in a curated context. 

 

He is currently completing a Masters of Guitar at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, with Professors Otto Tolonen and Nicola Hein. 

 

Recent highlights include a tour with Fausto Romitelli’s video opera An Index of Metals in South East Asia, led by Peter Veale, as well as the premiere of Bernd Redmann’s Danses Rituelles for chamber ensemble. He also performed the at the METRIC Symposium at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki and Next Generation_X Symposium at the ZKM Karlsruhe.

 

Dennis has recorded and debuted solo guitar music by Malaysian composer Tazul Tajuddin and Melbourne composer David William Murray.​

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Dennis has performed Rodrigo's Concierto De Aranjuez with the St George Chamber Orchestra, and has performed with the Sydney Symphony Fellows and Sydney Youth Orchestra.

 

Dennis previously studied in Sydney, Australia and currently resides near Hamburg, Germany. 

 

Dennis plays a guitar by Woodburn luthier Simon Marty.

 

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