Born in Toulouse in 1993, Kassandra Siebel received her first guitar lessons at age seven from Pia Gazarek-Offermann. In 2009 she became a student at the Young Academy Rostock, studying with Thomas Offermann at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock until 2018, and has since continued her studies in The Hague with Zoran Dukić. Since 2020 she has also been a member of the Asambura Ensemble, which blends European classical repertoire with East African, Persian, and Arabic musical traditions.

Siebel has won prizes at the Sarajevo International Guitar Festival, the German national competition “Jugend musiziert,” and the Festival Internacional de Guitarra “Ciudad de Coria” and “Ciutat d’Elx” junior competitions, and has performed in outreach concerts for hospitals and refugee communities, including a benefit tour for the “Guitars instead of guns” project supporting former child soldiers in the Congo. She released her debut CD “Premiere” in 2015 and has been a D’Addario Artist since 2020.

Sources:

• https://www.siccasguitars.com/blogs/guitarists/kassandra-siebel