Göran Söllscher

Swedish classical guitarist and professor, born December 31, 1955 in Växjö.

He studied until 1977 at the Malmö Academy of Music, and until 1979 at the Copenhagen Conservatory of Music, and then had, among others, Per-Olof Johnson as a teacher.

Söllscher had his breakthrough in Paris in 1978 when he won the French radio guitar competition, and is considered one of the world's leading guitarists. He is known for playing baroque music (by, among others, Bach) transcribed onto the 11-string alto guitar designed and built by Georg Bolin.

He has taught at the Academy of Music in Malmö (Lund University) as an adjunct professor since 1993 and a regular professor since 2002.