Roland Schlieder has toured through Latin-America, Germany and the US as performer and teacher. He began playing the guitar learning by ear at the age of 15, listening to the recordings of Pepe Romero. After his school studies Schlieder graduates first in mechanical engineering, with honors and in Munich he studies business administration. 1995 after a personal encounter with Maestro Leo Brower and Maestro David Russell he decided to leave Germany and study classical guitar. After several master classes with Costas Cotsiolis, Andrew York, Manuel Barrueco, David Russell, Leo Brouwer, still as self-taught, he receives a scholarship from Butler University - Indianapolis in 1996. He studies parallel at the Indiana University in Bloomington with Maestro Petar Jankovic. He studies coral conducting with Dr. Eric Stark and orchestral conducting with Maestro Stanley DeRusha. After 2 years he graduates from Butler University and in 2000 he receives a scholarship for a masters degree at San Diego State University, where he could make his dream come true: to study with Celin Romero, member of the re-known guitar family  “Los Romeros”.
Maestro Celin Romero guided him for 3 years in developing his own technique and the relationship to the family Romero gave him special input in performance and musical development. His concert repertoire expanded through the work with Celin Romero and the strong focus on technical preparation by Celin Romero culminates in his own technical approach “Control Technique”.
From 2000-2003 he was artist in residence from San Diego State University and also orchestra assistant of Maestro Dr. Donald Barra. His knowledge of business administration wins acceptance as orchestra manager of the orchestra. After graduating in 2003 he receives the offer to form a new and first orchestra in the city where he was born, Santa Cruz – Bolivia. Together with violin teacher Kenneth Sarch and the Fulbright Scholarship Program the Youth Orchestra presented in September 2003 the first concerts. Maestro Schlieder deceides to stay in Santa Cruz in order to guide the orchestra into the future as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor. In July 2005 Schlieder gets invited to conduct the anniversary concert of the CAF (Corporation of Countries of the Andes) in La Paz, where he worked with 300 voices and 100 musicians in the orchestra performing Vivaldi’s Gloria and other masterworks. In 2006 Schlieder gets invited to conduct Handel’s Messiah during the VI. International Baroque Festival in Santa Cruz and got commissioned the arrangement and performance of the rediscovered work by Domenico Zipoli – Te Deum laudámus – for choir and orchestra. In 2007 this South American baroque masterpiece will be published together with Schlieder’s critical notes. In 2006 Schlieder received the national prize “Man of the Arts”, and gets nominated for the international TOYP (The Outstanding Young Professional in the Arts) prize.
He conducts orchestras and choirs in South America and Europe and is professor of music theory at the UEB (Evangelic University of Bolivia). Through the possibility of performing with a symphony orchestra Maestro Schlieder has focused on the presentation of an extensive guitar concerto repertoire.

Interpretation of music is the Art of finding the true feelings and emotions within the music or between the notes. Do not invent and
add feelings into it, because you were not born when the composition was writen...try to understand the timeperiod, read books, read, read...