Performance Year: 2026
Joaquín Clerch is a Cuban classical guitarist, composer, and educator. He is a leading guitar pedagogue as Professor of Guitar at Robert Schumann University Düsseldorf, where his students have won many international awards and honors in major competitions. As a composer, his work Yemaya won first prize in both the 1987 National Cuban Composition Competition and the 1987 Toronto International Guitar Competition. Clerch received one of the Cuban government’s highest artistic awards, “La orden por la cultura nacional,” and his work as a guitarist has taken him to leading concert halls around the world.
