Guitar Duo

Lee Song-Ou and Oliver Fartach-Naini began playing together in 1991, when both were students of American Guitarist and Composer Laurie Randolph at the University of Arts in Berlin, Germany. Since then a busy schedule of tours, festival appearances, master classes, summer schools, TV and Radio recordings, have taken the duo to Europe, Asia and Australia.

They are renowned for their adventurous, theme-driven concert programmes, featuring contemporary and nineteenth century music, which often include brief and entertaining spoken introductions.

Composers from all over the world have personally dedicated works to them, including Lee Geonyong (South Korea), Laurie Randolph (USA), Ludger Vollmer (Germany), Carlo Domeniconi (Italy), Coco Nelegatti (Argentina), Thomas Wallisch (Austria) as well as Richard Charlton and Stephen Whittington from Australia. The duo’s highly praised albums “Movement For Two Guitars” and “Frutti di Mare”, both on Kreuzberg Records, are among the 16 recordings released by these versatile musicians through numerous record labels.

Their latest recording for DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON, featuring Ludger Vollmer's instrumental arrangement of Franz Schubert's Winterreise with Richard Yongjae O'Neill (viola) was the No. 1 of the South Korean Classical charts for 3 months with over 40,000 copies sold in the last quater of 2007.