Bertram Burkert, born in 1994 in Jena, Germany, began guitar lessons at age seven with Anett Bartuschka. Since October 2013 he has studied classical guitar with Thomas Müller-Pering at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar, alongside jazz guitar studies in Leipzig. He has toured internationally with the German Federal Jazz Orchestra and performed at the Burghausen Jazz Week alongside the WDR Big Band, Ron Carter and Richard Galliano.

Burkert works across classical and jazz idioms, winning the soloist prize of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben at the “Jugend musiziert” national competition. He is a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and today performs as a freelance musician in Berlin, including with the STEGREIF.orchestra, the band Stax, and in a duo with theremin player Carolina Eyck.

Sources:

• https://www.siccasguitars.com/blogs/guitarists/bertram-burkert