Christian from Blohn

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Christian von Blohn (* 1963 in Homburg ) is a German organist , church musician and music educator .

Study and training

Von Blohn completed his studies at the Saar University of Music in Saarbrücken with an A-exam in Catholic church music and a diploma in music education. His organ teacher was André Luy , in whose master class at the Conservatoire de Lausanne he also continued his studies and was awarded the Premier Prix de Virtuosité . Further studies with a focus on "early music" led him to Daniel Chorzempa at the Music Academy in Basel and to the Mozarteum in Salzburg .

Musical activities

Since 1993 he has been a church musician at the Catholic parish church of St. Hildegard  in St. Ingbert . There he is head of the St. Ingbert branch of the Episcopal Church Music Institute of the Speyer diocese , where he teaches the prospective C church musicians in the subjects of choral conducting and organ , and dean's cantor for the Saarpfalz dean's office . Since 2015 he has also worked as a church musician at St. Josef in St. Ingbert . He is also a lecturer for choral conducting and répétiteur at the Saar University of Music in Saarbrücken.

He is the director of the Collegium Vocale Blieskastel , with which he regularly performs choral works such as the St. John Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach or the oratorio "Paulus" by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , occasionally in cooperation with the St. Hildegard Church Choir .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ website of the Collegium Vocale Blieskastel, accessed on March 24, 2011
  2. ↑ website of the St. Hildegard Church Choir ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 24, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pfarrei-st-hildegard-igb.de
  3. ↑ website of the Collegium Vocale Blieskastel, concert review of the St. John Passion ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 25, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.collegium-vocale-blieskastel.de
personal data
SURNAME Blohn, Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist, church musician and music educator
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Homburg