German guitarist Eva Beneke earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles in 2012 and studied at the Franz Liszt Hochschule in Weimar, Germany. She has won prizes at international guitar competitions in The Netherlands, Italy and the USA, and has performed on internationally broadcast radio and television programs.

Highlights include appearances with the German Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and invitations to festivals in Peru, Mexico, Germany, Lithuania, the USA, China and Thailand, as well as a televised performance with famed singer Carrie Underwood.

Eva Beneke’s latest album is a NAXOS recording of Fernando Sor’s « Complete Works for Voice and Guitar » with mezzo-soprano Nerea Berraondo and was released in 2017.

In the fall of 2018, she was appointed Associate Professor of guitar at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo.