Christian Collum
Christian Collum (* 1943 in Dresden ) is a German church musician .
Christian Collum was born the son of the church musician Herbert Collum . He attended the Dresden Kreuzschule and was the singer of the Dresdner Kreuzchor . He completed his training as a cantor at the Dresden State Church Music School . Because of the refusal to serve in the army, he was denied a university degree. In 1965 he was finally admitted to the Leipzig Music Academy , where he studied organ, conducting and choral conducting. In 1975 he passed his Kapellmeister exam. After working as an organist in Rostock , he left the GDR in 1980 and took over the position of church musician at the Petrikirche in Mülheim an der Ruhr . In 1983 he moved to the Protestant Church in Cologne-Rath as organist and at the same time took over the artistic direction of the Cologne Bach Society (until 1994). From 1988 to 2008 he was a church musician at the Reformation Church in Cologne-Marienburg .
Audio documents
- Organs in Cologne
- Christian Collum plays works by Bruhns, Böhm, Vivaldi, Krebs, Mozart, Boëly
- Organ concert in the High Cathedral in Cologne
Web links
- Works by and about Christian Collum in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical information from christian-collum.de , accessed on December 27, 2011
- ↑ Biographical information from www.bach-verein.de , accessed on December 27, 2011
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| SURNAME | Collum, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German church musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |