While still at school Katrin Klingeberg was accepted as a young student at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. She later went on to study with Professor Frank Bungarten at the Hanover Superior School of Music and Theater, where she earned a pass with distinction. Since April 2007 she has continued her studies under Professor Thomas Müller-Pering at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar, Germany.

Sebastián Montes began studying classical guitar with his father at the age of thirteen and entered the Department of Arts at the University of Chile in 1995, where he studied classical guitar with Professor Luis Orlandini. He completed his Licentiate degree in music in 2003 with maximum distinction and was awarded the D.A.A.D. German academic exchange service scholarship that same year, which allowed him to pursue post graduate studies in Germany at the Hanover Superior School of Music and Theater.

Klingeberg and Montes formed their duo in 2004 while studying in Hanover and have since performed together in Germany, Portugal, Rumania, Spain, Italy, and Chile.

In April 2008 the duo was accepted into the Master’s program in Chamber Music at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart and studied under the renowned Bulgarian Guitar Duo Kaltchev. In February 2010 Klingeberg and Montes received their Master’s Diploma with maximum distinction and entered the Solo class at the same university.

Awards:

1st Prize at the "VII Transylvania International Guitar Festival" in Cluj, Romania (2009)

1st Prize at the VII Chamber Music Competition "Luys Milán" in Ontinyent, Spain (2008)

1st Prize at the VII Chamber Music Competition "Citta di Gorizia", Italy (2010)

2nd Prize at the Aschaffenburger Gitarrentage Chamber Music Competition in Aschaffenburg, Germany (2010)


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