Christoph Spengler

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Christoph Spengler (born January 28, 1969 in Wermelskirchen ) is a German church musician .

Christoph Spengler (2014)

Life

After graduating from the Leibniz Gymnasium in Remscheid in 1988, Spengler studied church music at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf with Almut Rößler and Volker Hempfling and graduated with the A-exam. In 1985 he became a church musician of the Johannes parish in Remscheid (since 2018 Evangelical Resurrection parish). In 2005 he founded the Remscheid Youth Orchestra (since 2017 the Remscheid Young Orchestra). In addition, he has been teaching the choir of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal since 2007 and the university orchestra since 2011.

2014-2016 he had a teaching position for popular music at the Musikhochschule Köln . Since 2014 he has been leading the popular music training program of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland and the Evangelical Church of Westphalia together with Matthias Nagel . He is a piano lecturer at the Evangelical Pop Academy in Witten in the Protestant Church Music popular course.

In 2017 he was appointed church music director by the church leadership of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

honors and awards

  • 2016 Medal of Honor from the University of Wuppertal
  • 2018 Citizen Medal of the City of Remscheid

Competition participation

  • 1987 State competition Jugend musiziert (organ)
  • Youth composed (2nd place)

Works

  • triptych
  • It's a reaper, it's called death
  • My kingdom is out of this world
  • Jesus' announcements of suffering
  • TastaTour (Bärenreiter)
  • TastaGroove 1-3 (Bärenreiter)
  • TastaFree (Bear Rider)
  • Together on the way (Ed., Verlag Singende Gemeinde)
  • Strangers can become friends - 16 new songs (sheet music and CD, Strube-Verlag)
  • The Pattern Spielbuch (together with Matthias Nagel, Strube-Verlag)
  • Practical book for pop choir conducting (Strube-Verlag)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abitur 1988. Leibniz-Gymnasium Remscheid, archived from the original on August 9, 2007 ; Retrieved September 17, 2013 .
  2. ↑ www.hfmt-koeln.de ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 9, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hfmt-koeln.de
  3. ↑ www.ekir.de , accessed on January 24, 2017
  4. ↑ www.presse.uni-wuppertal.de , accessed on April 13, 2016
  5. ↑ General Gazette of September 29, 2018

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personal data
SURNAME Spengler, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Wermelskirchen