Christoph Schoener

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Christoph Schoener (* 1953 in Heidelberg ) is a German church musician and university professor.

Christoph Schoener studied organ with Ludwig Doerr and piano with Carl Seemann and Edith Picht-Axenfeld at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg im Breisgau . Schoener had a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation to study with Gaston Litaize in Paris. He later took lessons from Ewald Kooiman in Amsterdam. From 1984 to 1998 he worked as a cantor and organist at the Bielert Church in Opladen . He directed the Leverkusen Bach Choir. The Evangelical Church in the Rhineland appointed him from 1991 to 1996 as regional church music director . In February 1998 he succeeded Günter Jenas as church music director at the Hamburg main church Sankt Michaelis . In a very short time he founded the St. Michaelis Choir.

In 2004 he took over the artistic direction of the 79th Bach Festival of the New Bach Society in Hamburg. Starting in the 2013/14 winter semester, he had a four-semester teaching position at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . He was awarded the honorary title of professor by the Hamburg Senate in 2018 . On December 31, 2019, he will retire as cantor at the main church of St. Michaelis. His successor there on January 1, 2020 will be Jörg Endebrock .

His repertoire focuses on the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach and German Romanticism . In 2016 he was honored with the Echo Klassik for the recording of all of Bach's organ toccatas in the category “Audiophile Multi-Channel Recording of the Year” for interpretation and sound .

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  1. ^ Klaus Merhof: Bach every day. The Echo Klassik award winner Christoph Schoener says goodbye to the Hamburg Michel. In: Evangelische Zeitung No. 51/52, 95th year, December 22nd, 2019, p. 15.
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SURNAME Schoener, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg