“…It must be a special feeling to be a German guitarist, to sit in an International orchestra and play Greek music.

Rainer Rohloff, born in 1959, had already been given guitar lessons at the age of seven and finished his studies at the University of Music”Musikhochschule Weimar”from which he graduated with diploma in 1981. Not only his educational background but his ability to have a distant view at the conventional classic guitar music allowed him to be engaged as permanent member of the orchestra of the Greek componist Mikis Theodorakis in 1988. Rohloff had stayed there for about ten years and joined a number of tours and recordings. During that time his idea to do a brave project grew which also shows deep admiration of Theodorakis: the arrangement of some of his songs and works for classic guitar music as a solo program in order to add it to the guitar repertoire…”

GITARRE aktuell, No. 86