Frank Wingold, born in 1968 in Speyer, Germany, is a jazz and classical guitarist and composer. He began playing guitar at age nine and studied at the Hilversum Conservatory from 1988 to 1993. Wingold's career took off when he joined Sebastian Gramss' group Underkarl in 1993. He has collaborated with various artists, including Martina Gassmann and Efrat Alony, and formed the duo Shraeng with Ralph Beerkircher. In 2009, Wingold became been a professor of jazz guitar at the Institute of Music of Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. Notable albums as a bandleader include Entangled Music (2018) and To Be Frank (2021). He has also won the Best Soloist award at the Europe Jazz Contest in Brussels and the Dutch Jazz Competition at the North Sea Jazz Festival.
