INFORMATION

Hi mandolin-pickers! I’m Jesper Rübner-Petersen and I was born on the 8th of July 1969 in Aarhus/Denmark, where I grew up with Bluegrass and Acoustic Music because of my banjo playing father.

At the age of 12 I started to play the guitar and as soon as I was ready to grab a couple of chords I luckily got the chance to play in different Oldtime and Bluegrass Bands.

Beside playing bluegrass, I’ve always tried to be open about new influences and decided to follow the jazz program at the "American Institute of Music" in Vienna / Austria, which I completed in March 1993. Staying at the A.I.M. opened up my eyes to harmony and theory and the understanding of improvisation.

Around 1994, after years of intensive guitar playing, I bought myself a mandolin in order to try out a second instrument, – a purchase which changed my life.

In July 2000 the destiny of love made me to move to South-Germany, where I also started my professional career as a guitar and mandolin teacher. At the same time, I started teaching at Beppe Gambetta's Summer-Workshop, the International Workshop Musique Acoustique in Belgium, the Mandolin-Workshop at the New Acoustic Gallery and other local workshops.

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