Carsten Lenz

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The organ duo Iris and Carsten Lenz at a guest concert in the Evangelical Church in Mettingen in 2014 .

Carsten Lenz (* 1970 ) is a German Protestant church musician , composer and organist . Lenz and his wife Iris are among the leading organ duos in Europe.

Life

Carsten Lenz received his first organ lessons at the age of 12. He studied Protestant church music at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Dagmar Lübking, Peter UIlkan and Karl-Peter Chilla and artistic organ playing at the Wiesbaden Music Academy with Elisabeth Maranca. At Chilla he passed the B examination in children's choir conducting.

He attended numerous master classes a . a. with Jon Laukvik , Andrea Marcon , Miguel Bennassar, Eckhart Kuper, Christiane Michel-Ostertun and Renate Zimmermann .

From 1991 to 1996 he worked as a church musician at the Orange Memorial Church in Wiesbaden-Biebrich . Since 1996 he has been a deanery church musician in Ingelheim am Rhein . There he founded the Georg Philipp Telemann Choir and the children's choir of the Ingelheim deanery .

He has published around 20 recordings and has edited numerous sheet music and compositions for organ, some of them for two players, and published chorale adaptations for the Evangelical Hymnal . He has also worked as an organist in numerous radio and TV productions.

Lenz founded the children's and youth choir of the Ingelheim deanery in 1996. With its seven choir groups, the choir is one of the largest of its kind in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN), u. a. Lenz founded the Telemann Choir for adults a year later in 1997, in which 60 singers from Ingelheim and the surrounding area are currently singing. Lenz works as a church musician for the evangelical hall church in Ingelheim . Since 2018, the children's and youth choir he founded in 1996 has been called Singakademie Ingelheim .

He performs as an organ duo with his wife Iris Lenz.

Audio documents

  • 1989 Organ Romance (LP)
  • Shout you heavens
  • Historical organs with music of their time (4 CDs)
  • Born in Bethlehem
  • Music for guitar and organ
  • The Hardt organ in St. Peter Hadamar Niederzeuzheim
  • Four-hand organ works

Web links

Commons : Carsten Lenz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rostock district: Well-known melodies - an organ fireworks display with 4 hands and 4 feet. July 10, 2017, accessed December 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Carsten Lenz on the artist's website, accessed on November 23, 2016.
  3. ↑ Evangelical Saalkirchengemeinde Ingelheim. Retrieved February 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Evangelical Saalkirchengemeinde Ingelheim. Retrieved February 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lenz, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician and organist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970