Press Reviews

Joaquín Clerch plays Rodrigo's music with virtuosic, sparkling fluency, and even the most rapid chord changes have an exhilarating lightness to them. (...) He plays the wonderfully melodic music with great feeling, makes the strings of his guitar sing and is celebrated by the audience.  
Rudolf Hermes, WAZ, 28.11.2019
Some people are born for music. Mozart was one such person, and the Cuban guitarist and composer Joaquin Clerch is another.
Wenneke Savenije/Klassieke Saaken

Diving into the legacy of composer and guitarist Gaspar Sanz, Rodrigo found pieces worthy of being recreated and reconceptualised in the Fantasía (para un Gentilhombre)...
Pedro de la Hoz, Granma, 2.1.2018

(...) as an outstanding guitarist, composer of his own pieces and a great teacher. Joaquín Clerch stands alone in this combination. He is one of the really, really great ones.  
Sabine Heinritz, Deggendorfer Zeitung, 3 November 2021
...He also accepted the challenge of an impressing adaptation of Paganini’s caprices which makes loudspeakers go wild. All this in a relaxed atmosphere, with the lightness of salsa in the air. The public’s applause is the right response to a unique maestro of his instrument.
Ouest France, Nantes Philippe Gambert
It is a long time since we have heard a more beautiful or more unspectacularly exciting guitar recital.
Stuttgarter Nachrichten
Joaquín Clerch's fingers were faster on the fretboard than the human eye can follow in the piece "Cachita".  
OBV, Bad Aiblingen local newspaper, 27 November 2017
A concert of the highest possible standard: Joaquín Clerch gave a fireworks display.
Münsterländische Volkszeitung
The lyrical raptures of the Aranjuez’ Adagio became as limpid as the waters of a mountain lake. The soloist’s interpretation of this movement was so overwhelming that one almost forgot to breathe.
Siegener Zeitung
With two little waltzes by the Paraguayan composer Agustín Barrios Mangoré, Clerch showed his incredible dexterity on the guitar right at the beginning...
Cornelia Krause, Local Culture, 31.7.2018

Clerch has a thorough knowledge of early music performance, and it is sheer delight to follow his linear playing and the melodic clarity that pervades even arpeggiated passages. Delightful, too, is the way he gently ornaments the slow movements and makes use of formal fermatas for little improvised cadences.  
Salzburger Nachrichten
His subtle playing, his profound and genuine inspiration, and his masterful virtuosity convinced the audience of the remarkable mastery which makes him one of the best guitarists of our time.”
Juillet Musical d`Auline, Belgium
Guitar duo: Joaquin Clerch, Ricardo Gallén
The complicity of geniuses with Ricardo Gallén and Joaquín Clerch Their careers and their personalities make them living legends of the guitar of all times.  
Celsio García, ABC of Córdoba 7.7.2022
Clerch’s playing was a fascinating demonstration of the message which the guitar is capable of communicating.
Salzburger Nachrichten
Expressive and exceedingly concentrated, Clerch effortlessly filled the concert hall of the Alte Oper with evocative music with a southern flair.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The scales of the two are supernatural: apart from being devilishly fast, they manage to play them simultaneously and blend into ...
Teresa Camarena, the day of Cordoba, 7.7.2022

Clerch used his instrument’s enormous versatility in an exemplary fashion to present a deeply touching interpretation of the music.
Schaffhauser Nachrichten
Joaquin Clerch is a guitarist of serious musicality, and his way of phrasing is just as expressive as his sound.”
El País, Madrid
For his part, Joaquín Clerch played with the developments and repetitions in Ponce's concerto, displaying a kind of reorientation...
José Antonio Cantón, 11.7.2022

The artist’s playing skill, his shimmering wealth of tone colours and supple agogics were completely captivating.
Schaffhauser Nachrichten
Guitar playing of the highest standard: Clerch’s virtuosity was dazzling, and yet his subtle musicality remained in perfect harmony with his enviable technical skill. He is undoubtedly one of the best guitarists of his generation and a truly great figure in today’s guitar world
Diario Cordoba
A real feast for the eyes and ears.
Kritik passau, 31.3.2014, Wolfgang Weitzdörfer

He is virtuosic in his mastery of passages and flamenco ornaments with rhythmic intensity and thrilling tension, while the intense emotionality and concentration of his playing in the Aranjuez’ Adagio is positively spiritual.
Westfälische Rundschau
Joaquín Clerch is not only a master of his instrument with a subtle grasp of technique, but also a sensitive interpreter – a virtuoso and poet alike. Debussy once said: „The music is not in the notes, but between them.“ Clerch’s playing revealed the possibilities for interpretation and for enriching sounds that follow from this realisation.
Badische Neueste Nachrichten
When 5 + 5 fingers are more than 10… Seldom has Sevilla seen or heard a virtuoso of this quality.
Andrés Moreno Mengíbar, Diario de Sevilla, 28. Junio 2011
With the tenderness and powerful presence of his tone, the soloist Joaquín Clerch did excellent justice to the rather dark, quiet mood of Leo Brouwer’s work. His incredible technical precision ... more
Westdeutsche Zeitung

Music soothes the soul; the virtuoso coaxes from his instrument sounds that caress the soul.
Westfälische Rundschau