Martin Lücker
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Martin Lücker (born 11 October 1953) is a German classical organist, and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main.
Career
Born in Preußisch Oldendorf, Lücker studied organ in Hannover[1] and in Vienna with Anton Heiller,[2] and conducting in Detmold with Martin Stephani.[3] He first worked there at the Landestheater Detmold as repetiteur, then as assistant of the choir director at the Oper Frankfurt.[1]
From 1983, he has been organist of the main Protestant church of Frankfurt, the Katharinenkirche.[1][4] He has been professor of Künstlerisches Orgelspiel und Methodik/Didaktik des Orgelunterrichtes (concert organ playing and didactic of teaching organ playing) at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main from 1998.[1] From August 2011, he has also been the conductor of the chamber choir Figuralchor Frankfurt.[1][3][5]
At the Katharinenkirche, he established two regular concert series. In "30 Minuten Orgelmusik" (30 minutes of organ music“, he plays every Monday and Thursday at 4:30 pm a free concert of 30 minutes, playing the 3000th concert in 2013.[1][6] In "Musik in Sankt Katharinen" (Music in Saint Catharine's), he offers two organ concerts a months, played by himself and guests, and choral music with the Kantorei St. Katharinen.[1]
In 2012, he played a concert at the historic Stumm organ of the Rheingauer Dom with a program that Albert Schweitzer had performed in Frankfurt in 1928 on a similar instrument that was destroyed.[7] He celebrated his 30th anniversary at the Katharinenkirche with a concert.[8]
Selected recordings
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Leipziger Spätwerke. Hänssler CD 92.100
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Eine Weimarer Tonleiter. Hänssler CD 92.091
- Das Frankfurter Orgelbuch, Sieben zeitgenössische Orgelstücke, Melisma MELI 7114-2
- Works by Bach, Vivaldi, Stanley and others with Reinhold Friedrich (trumpet) and Hartmut Friedrich (trombone). Capriccio 10483
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Holze, Guido (5 April 2014). "Ein Seiteneinsteiger mit Sinn für Kontinuität". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 14 September 2014.
- ↑ "Martin Lücker (Organ)". bach-cantatas.com. 2007. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
- 1 2 "Künstlerische Leitung" (in German). Figuralchor Frankfurt. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
- ↑ "Martin Lücker". Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
- ↑ "Man trifft sich immer zweimal". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 30 December 2011. p. 48.
- ↑ "Frankfurter Organist Martin Lücker gibt 3000. kostenloses Konzert". Frankfurter Neue Presse (in German). 30 June 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
- ↑ "Historisches Orgelkonzert im Rheingauer Dom /Ganz nah am Original: Albert Schweitzers Konzert aus dem Jahr 1928 in Geisenheim". Rheingau Echo (in German). 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
External links
- Official website
- Christia Rupp: Für eine halbe Million Ohren - 3000. Konzert „30 Minuten Orgelmusik“ nmz, 30 June 2013 (German)
- Mark Obert: Folge 84: Martin Lücker Der rote Faden: Sein Glück – unser Glück Frankfurter Neue Presse, 9 August 2014 (German)