Wolfgang Kläsener

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Wolfgang Kläsener
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Dortmund
EducationFolkwang-Hochschule
Occupations
  • Church musician
  • Choral conductor
  • Academic
Organizations
AwardsInternationaler Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Wettbewerb

Wolfgang Kläsener (born 1962) is a German church musician, choral conductor, and academic lecturer. He conducted the choir Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke and the is artistic director of the Kettwiger Bach-Ensemble.

Career

Born in Dortmund, Kläsener studied organ with Gisbert Schneider from 1979 and Catholic church music at the Folkwang-Hochschule from 1981, graduating in 1987. As an organist, he was recipient of the third prize at the Internationaler Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Wettbewerb in Leipzig in 1988, and of the Walter Gieseking Competition in Saarbrücken in 1989. He took a concert exam with Daniel Roth in 1990.[1]

Kläsener founded in 1984 the which received several prizes at international competitions. From 1985, he was lecturer of organ and choral conducting at the Bischöfliche Kirchenmusikschule in Essen, and from 1990 lecturer of choral conducting at the Kirchenmusikschule in Rottenburg am Neckar. From 1993, he was artistic director of the Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke.[1] A performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion in a danced version in 2017 celebrated the 40th anniversary of the relation between Wuppertal and Beer-Sheva, Israel, in cooperation with the Wuppertaler Bühnen. He had to shorten the music and perform it in different order, to match the retrospect narrative of the choreographer Tamir Ginz.[2][3] Kläsener conducted the Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke to July 2017.[4][2]

Kläsener has worked as the church musician in Solingen from 9 September 2017.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Wolfgang Kläsener / Curiculum vitae" (in German). Kettwig. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Glückliches Zusammenspiel". Bergische Blätter (in German). 8 August 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Leverkusen / Matthäus-Passion - Jesus stirbt im grellen Licht der Scheinwerfer". Rheinische Post (in German). 1 April 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  4. ^ Sassenhausen, Hartmut (10 July 2017). "Eine Ära endet bei der Kantorei". Westdeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  5. ^ "Neuer Musiker für Pfarrgemeinschaft West". Solinger Morgenpost (in German). 8 August 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2017.

External links

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