Kronen Zeitung (daily, Austria) August 14, 2010
Contemporary Evening

...successful guitar player Christian Haimel exhibited a different side as a virtuoso singing ministrel ...


NeuesVolksblatt (daily, Austria), August 14, 2010
Grand vocal acrobatics and guitar technique

... [Christian Haimel] who managed to enthrall his audience even when performing only contemporary pieces due to detailed sound composition and mastery of technique ....


Neues Volksblatt, (daily, Austria) June 21, 2010
Guitar at St Florian monastery

... the high quality of his performance lies in the playful variety of the delicate timbre and in his musical expressiveness ...


Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung (Germany), November 23, 2009
A virtuoso string performance

... The young artist has been filling large concert halls for years, and, not for nothing, is being called the 'man with the singing guitar' ...


Neues Volksblatt (daily, Austria) May 15, 2009
A high-calibre guitar virtuoso

His creativity seems boundless ... whatever the genre, his play becomes a declaration of love ...


Neues Volksblatt (daily, Austria), “Hoertest”, January 12, 2008

... On his recently released first CD we gear clear, pleasing harmonies presented with elegant confidence on the classical guitar. Christian Haimel with great sensitivity pursues the colours inherent in the sound of his guitar and with his virtuoso interpretations coaxes a whole new palette of tonalities from his instrument.
The listener perceives finely calibrated echo plays in surprising cascades of brilliant mastery of this rarely heard solo instrument, an eye-opener not only for specialists.


Concerto (bimonthly music magazine, Austria), 1/2008
“tontraeger contemporary” section

[Christian Haimel] ... is a shooting star among the classical guitarists. For this recording the only 26-year-old has chosen a multi-faceted programme with four highly demanding concert pieces which pose the highest of challenges in interpretation for every guitar player – and Christian Haimel masters them with ease and verve.


Main-Echo (daily, Germany), No 30, February 5, 2008
With an inner smile

Guitar player Christian Haimel makes his audience at the Aschaffenburg music school dream.


Online Musik Magazin (Germany, online publicatication), February 3, 2008
Terrific impression

Christian Haimel debuts at the Aschaffenburg Guitar Days
...Another insiders' tip is the young Austrian guitarist Christian Haimel. With his terrific performance at the concert hall of the city's music school, Haimel celebrated an acclaimed debut at this renowned festival.
By Ingo Negwer


Falter (weekly, Austria), issue 27/2008, July 2, 2008
Review

At the end of his debut album Christian Haimel flies into space ... the Upper Austrian guitar player (born 1981) proves to be a great musician – with the courage to look outside the boundaries of the usual repertoires for concert guitar. For that he was awarded the [Austrian Oe1 Radio's monthly] Pasticcio Prize in June.



Nuertinger, Wendlinger Zeitung (daily, Germany) July 20, 2008
A talent readt to make a major leap

Christian Haimel convinced his audience at the Kreuzkiche church. They were awarded with a concert that was very much worth listening to and got to know a likeable young artist.

Colin Cooper in Classical Guitar Magazine, March 2005

The march in the Giuliani was hammered out with such verve that I almost felt like saluting the nearest flag, but it was lyrical as well...
. In the semi-final Haimel had given one of the best performances of Walton's Bagatelles I have ever heard...

> read more

OÖ. Nachrichten, Schloss Puchberg, 14 November 2003

In a meticulous and virtuoso performance he produced the most diverse tone colors of the guitar sound. Voluptuously and yet analytically well structured, he gave a most convincing interpretation of Bach’s Ciaconna.

OÖ. Volksblatt, "Debüt in Linz" Brucknerhaus, 18 March 2002

... a display of bravura that makes one forget the perils and difficulties of this instrument. He unfolds enchanting soundscapes devoid of noise and, aged twenty-one, is already a person of exceptionally great charisma on stage.

OÖ. Nachrichten, "Debüt in Linz" Brucknerhaus, 18 March 2002

The subtle and yet intense musical performance of the guitarist Christian Haimel made a lasting impression. His highly sophisticated playing is characterized by a natural, accurate and clear virtuosity...

Die Presse, Wiener Konzerthaus, 16 January 2001

Heaven knows it does not happen every day that a guitarist is responsible for a profound silence among the audience of a Viennese concert hall. The nineteen-year-old Christian Haimel has succeeded in that...
He conjures up subtly differentiated colors and moods...
He makes his instrument sing.