Carlos Wernicke
Guitar
"Music is science. Grounded in rhetoric, structure, oratory, and lyricism.
It builds bridges between thought, emotion, sound, image, and history."
“Canción del Emperador” · Luys de Narváez
Mille regretz by Josquin des Prez
About
Carlos Wernicke approaches music as a space for thought and attentive listening. His work centres on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Renaissance repertoire, and also embraces a wide range of traditions from the last six centuries, including medieval and classical music, tango, folk music, rock, pop, and Latin American repertoire. His interpretations are guided by musical oratory, rhetoric, and lyricism, in a constant search for beauty and the deepest expressiveness.
Alongside performance, his artistic practice includes transcription and arrangement, research, composition, and teaching. It also extends to the creation of programmes in which music enters into dialogue with history, the spoken word, and the cultural contexts that surround it.
The guitar thus becomes a medium of resonance and synthesis, allowing these works to speak again with clarity, depth, and inner intensity.
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“…the guitarist Carlos Wernicke accompanied with delicacy and creativity (extraordinary, by the way) — an artist well worth keeping an eye on.”
“…the Argentine guitarist Carlos Wernicke, a name truly worthy of attention for his admirable musical sensitivity and technical virtuosity.”
“…a guitarist who does not merely accompany, but instead seeks the perfect atmosphere for each song, the ideal sound for the word, and shows a magnificent rapport with the tenor (…) achieving moments of spectacular brilliance, full of feeling and expressive depth.”
Biography
Carlos Wernicke (Buenos Aires, 1976) is a classical guitarist whose artistic work encompasses early music, Johann Sebastian Bach, the Spanish Renaissance, tango, and contemporary creation. His approach combines a strong interest in musical rhetoric, expression, and the cultural contexts surrounding each repertoire.
He begun studying guitar at the age of ten with Máximo Pujol, with whom they forged an enormous friendship, resulting in a wonderful guitar duo. He graduated as Profesor Superior de Guitarra from the Juan José Castro Conservatory in Buenos Aires. Alongside his guitar studies, he pursued training in cello, piano, harmony, composition, and counterpoint, developing a broad and solid musical foundation that allows him to move fluently across different musical languages.
Wernicke has developed a distinctive artistic profile through transcriptions, original arrangements, and curated programs that explore the dialogue between music, symbolism, and the visual arts. Several of his projects integrate Renaissance or Baroque repertoire with projections of historical artworks, while others engage with tango and contemporary music in chamber and solo contexts.
He has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in major concert halls and cultural institutions across Europe and Argentina, recorded seven albums, and published compositions and arrangements with Les Productions d’Oz. Alongside his performing career, he has been active as a pedagogue since 1995, teaching guitar and chamber music in Argentina and Spain.
