"Viktor van Niekerk is a conscious artist, with a total understanding of the ten-string guitar as envisioned by Narciso Yepes." Fritz Buss, 2007

 

 

Viktor van Niekerk was born in 1981, in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he lived until the age of 24. After spending four years in Australia, he now resides in Shanghai, China. 

 

As an artist, he is involved with music performance, painting/drawing, writing and teaching. 

 

He adopted the ten-string guitar at the age of fourteen, after which he became a student of Fritz Buss . His other mentors include Florian Messner (musicologist) and Bruno Brys (conductor/pianist).

 

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www.tenstringguitar.info owes a debt of gratitude to the input and support of the late master Narciso Yepes's long-term pupils, Fritz Buss and Godelieve Monden, and the Yepes family.