Alexander Swete

was born in 1964 in Bregenz, Austria.

He studied at the Conservatory of Bregenz with Georg Gaupp-Berghausen and at the Academy of Music in Vienna with Eugenia Kanthou and Konrad Ragossnig.
He finished his studies with Distinction and received the Special Prize for Artistic Merit by the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research.

Alexander Swete is Prizewinner at several international guitar competitions such as Havana, Cuba 1988 and ARD competition in Munich, Germany 1989.
1991 he was awarded the First Prize in the "Concours International de Guitare" in Paris.

Alexander Swete teaches in Vienna at the University of Music.

( http://www.alexanderswete.com/curriculum_e.php)