Career
In 1982, he founded the Flamenco-Jazz trio “Modo Nuevo”. From 1987 to 1989, he performed as a duo together with a Jewish singer. Between 1989 and 1996, Graf-Martinez was regularly invited as docent to numerous international guitar seminars.
He established “Guitar Days” in his home town, which he led until 1994.
After that, Graf-Martinez worked more and more as an author Since then he has worldwide published more than eight books - educational books with CDs, Civil Defense-ROM an DVDs - in English and in German.
In 2005 Gerhard Graf-Martinez was awarded the EduMedia-Award and the Comenius medal for his DVDs Flamenco Guitar. The Digital Video Disc “Gipsy Guitar - Rumbas Flamencas“ is nominated for the “digita 2009“, a quality award for digital media education.
Led by the passion to the Flamenco Graf-Martinez developed a special metronome software for the Flamenco rhythms.
