Willi Burger
Willi Burger is an Italian harmonica player.
He won a world championship of chromatic harmonica in 1955 in a competition of Fédération Internationale de l'Harmonica, and he is considered one of the renowned classical harmonica players.
He has recorded albums with accompaniment of pianoforte, classical guitar, string quintet. In other type of music, he has participated with Funky Beat. He has performed the harmonica in various important theatres in Italy and in harmica festivals of Europe, Taipei and Singapore.
In 2006, he won the competition Crystal Harmonica conceived by the Belgian harmonica association.
He is a member of the Diploma examination panel for Harmonica diploma examination.
In 2008 he played at the gala concert of SPAH in St. Louis accompanied on piano by Marcello Parolini.