Bernard Hebb

Hebb began his guitar studies in Massachusetts by Francis LaPierre. He continued his studies in Vienna Austria with Professor Karl Scheit, completing his education in 1969, at which time he received his Soloists-Diploma in Guitar (Master's degree). For many years Bernard Hebb was instructor of Guitar at the Hamburg and Bremer Conservatories of Music in Germany. In 1980 he was appointed Professor of Guitar at the University of the Arts (Hochschule für Künste) in Bremen, where he was significant in establishing the guitar department. Among the many students that studied with him were: Professor Bernd Ahlert, Katja Bergström, Ulrich Busch, Reed Desrosiers, Duo Stoyanova, Oliver Eidam, Boyan Karandjuloff, Ulf Kröger, Dušan Oravec, Ki-Bum Park, Uwe Raschen, Leandro Riva and Ralf Winkelmann. He is one of the founding members of the Zevener Guitar Week (Zevener Gitarrenwoche) and a jury member at international guitar festivals, where he also gives master classes. He compliments his pedagogical activities by giving recitals, which have taken him to the US, Australia and many other countries, including the European continent. Hebb has concertized as a soloist and has also performed, for example, in chamber music combinations with guitar, harpsichord, flute and violoncello. For his merits he has been, among others, acknowledged with the 1973 Gold Medal of Honor from the "Federation of Worker's Music Association" of Austria (VAMÖ), the Pakhus Prize from the "Århus Art Academy", Denmark (2002), the Silver Medal (2005) from the city of Zeven and he has been included in Who's Who in the World (USA) since 2006.