Andreas Petersen (organist)

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Andreas Petersen (* 1968 ) is a German organist and composer.

Life

Andreas Petersen received his first organ lessons from Ralf Otto and Johannes von Erdmann and has won several prizes at " Jugend musiziert ". In 1989 he began studying church music at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main, studying organ with Hans-Joachim Bartsch and Martin Lücker, as well as choir and orchestral conducting with Mathias Breitschaft , Georg Christoph Biller and Hans Jaskulsky. In 1995 he took his exam.

Since 1989 Andreas Petersen has worked as an organist and choir director in various parishes. In 1995 he came to the Evangelical Christ Church in Mannheim as a cantor . With the romantic Steinmeyer organ (IV-96) and the neo-baroque Marcussen organ (II-31), two important and stylistically diverse instruments were available to him. He directed the Bach choir and the chamber choir as well as the entire church music at the Christ Church.

In 2000 he recorded a CD on the organs of the Christ Church. He gave organ concerts in the United States in 2001 and took private organ studies with John Weaver . Since October 2000 Andreas Petersen has been responsible for church music in the Evangelical Peace Church Community in Düsseldorf and since June 2003 also in the Immanuelkirche .

Works

  • Media vita in morte sumus . Dohr, Cologne 2008.

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personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1968