Wolfgang Guggenberger, born in Sonthofen in the Allgäu region, was a first-prize winner at the national "Jugend musiziert" competition and won the "European Prize" of national music competitions for young people. In 1978, he distinguished himself as a prize winner and scholarship recipient at the prestigious "German Music Competition".

 

 

Numerous scholarships and cultural awards mark the career of Wolfgang Guggenberger, who completed his studies with distinction at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich under Rolf Quinque and at the Trossingen University of Music under Prof. Horst-Dieter Bolz. A two-year intensive course of study at Northwestern University in Chicago with Vincent Cichowicz, Adolph Herseth, and Arnold Jacobs proved to be groundbreaking and artistically formative for him.

 

As a member of the German Music Council's list of artists, Wolfgang Guggenberger performed as a soloist with renowned German orchestras. He gained experience as an orchestral trumpeter during his tenure with the Württembergische Philharmonie (principal trumpet) and through guest engagements with the HR Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Augsburg Philharmonic, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, and the Bach Collegium Stuttgart. A sought-after teacher and lecturer, he has given masterclasses in Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Georgia, Southeast Asia, the USA, and Mexico.

 

In addition to various radio recordings, Wolfgang Guggenberger released three CDs of solo and chamber music.

In 2004, his trumpet method book “BASICS PLUS” (Rundel, Music Publications) was published, which has since become part of the standard repertoire of brass instrument pedagogy.

 

Since 1986, Wolfgang Guggenberger worked as a lecturer in trumpet and head of the brass and percussion department at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, before accepting a professorship at the Trossingen University of Music in 2005. Until his retirement in 2023, he headed the "Positively Brass & Percussion" institute there, which has regularly organized the international "Positively Brass & Percussion Symposium" since 2015. He also directed the Trossingen University of Music Trumpet Ensemble. A number of commissioned works were composed for the ensemble, which can be heard on the CD "Kaleidollage" (Rundel compact).

 

From 2018 to 2022, Wolfgang Guggenberger also held a visiting professorship at the “Norwegian Music Academy”, the state music academy in Oslo.