Jürgen Treyz

Jürgen studied guitar at the MGI Munich, but also devoted himself intensively to traditional and medieval music. In 1993, he founded Artes Recording Studio in Esslingen, specializing in folk and acoustic music. As a guitarist, composer, and arranger of music for radio plays, television, and theatre , he has released more than 90 CDs of his own music and has received numerous awards and accolades for his audibly folk-influenced productions. In 2006, he and Gudrun Walther launched the “Deitsch” project, which focuses on German folk music. Their first CD, “Königskinder,” was highly praised by critics and celebrated as an important contribution to the preservation of German folk music culture. Their second album, “Heimat,” received the German Record Critics’ Award, and “Mittsommer-Sessions” from 2019 was selected as “The Special” CD by FOLKER magazine.
Jürgen Treyz and Gudrun Walther now continue this work as a duo, and their double album “DUO” (2017) received outstanding reviews.
The 2022 album “plus one” features Kirstine Elise Pedersen (DK), Albin Paulus (A), Andy Cutting (UK), Aaron Jones (UK), and Nuala Kennedy (IRE) and adds another highlight to their growing list of international collaborations with renowned musicians (“Litha” with Claire Mann and Aaron Jones, “Fiddles & Feet” with Oisín MacDiarmada and Samantha Harvey, and the current collaboration with Olov Johansson and Mikael Marin of “VÄSEN”).
In 2018, Jürgenpublished a guitar instruction book with a CD of acoustic music, for which he arranged German dance pieces from old manuscripts for fingerstyle guitar. His collaboration with cabaret artist and author Bernd Kohlhepp has resulted in several audio CDs and radio plays for children, most recently “Kokolores” in 2022.