Dieter Hennings Yeomans

The musical endeavours of Dieter Hennings Yeomans span from new music on guitar to early music for lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo and can be heard on the Naxos, Nonesuch, Bridge, Parma, NewBranch, New Albany, and Innova recording labels.

Hennings has been a soloist with Canada’s New Music Concerts Ensemble, Riverside Symphony (NYC), Tito Sccipa Orchestra (Lecce, Italy), Orquestra Sinfónica do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), Eastman BroadBand Ensemble, Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad de Guanajuato, Orquesta Filarmónica de Sonora, the University of Arizona Philharmonia, the Orquesta Filarmonica de Monterrey among many others. He has been a First-Prize winner in several prestigious competitions including the Aaron Brock International Guitar Competition in Toronto (2008), Eastman Guitar Concerto Competition (2005), Villa de Petrer International Young Artists Competition in Alicante (2002), Portland International Guitar Competition (2001), among others.

Dieter Hennings is an active proponent of new music, particularly that of Latin America, having recently worked with composers Mario Davidovsky, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, and Juan Trigos. He has recently premiered works by composers Scott Worthington, Beth Wiemann, Hebert Vazquez, Jake Bancks and many more. Hennings has received grants from the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music, the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (México) and the Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes (Sonora, México) to commission and premiere contemporary works for guitar. He is a resident artist at the East Coast Composers Ensemble and the Eastman Broad Band Ensemble, with whom he maintains an active performing schedule.

Dieter Hennings is Professor of Music at the University of Kentucky and curates the UK International Guitar Series, which has brought to Lexington some of the finest guitarists in the world. Some of the artists featured on the series include David Russell, Paul O’Dette, Paul Galbraith, Marcin Dylla, Zoran Dukic, to name but a few.