Daniel Beilschmidt
Daniel Beilschmidt (* 1978 in Zeulenroda ) is a German organist . Since 2009 he has been a university organist at the University of Leipzig .
Career
Musical training and studies
Daniel Beilschmidt studied after high school that he attended the special class for music of the Goethe-Gymnasium / Rutheneums since 1608 in Gera took off, organ at the Academy of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig with Arvid Gast, Ullrich Böhme and Stefan Johannes Bleicher . In 2002 he won the first prize for a scholarship from the Hans and Eugenia Jütting Foundation in Stendal . From 2003 to 2004 he spent a year abroad in Copenhagen with Hans Fagius . After successfully completing his diploma, in 2006 he completed postgraduate studies with concert exams at the Liszt School of Music Weimar with Michael Kapsner and Bernhard Klapprott .
Activity as organist and composer
In 2009, Beilschmidt was appointed to the position of university organist at the University of Leipzig , making him responsible for the musical organization of the university church services on all Sundays and public holidays. From 2009 to 2015 he was assistant organist to the Thomas organist at the Thomaskirche Leipzig . Since the 2015/16 winter semester he has been employed as an artistic assistant at the Church Music Institute of the University of Music and Theater Leipzig .
Beilschmidt has given concerts as an organist in Germany, Scandinavia , Belgium , Poland , Russia , Ukraine , Mexico , Argentina and the USA . He plays regularly with the St. Thomas Choir and Leipzig's Gewandhaus Orchestra and participated in the Leipzig Bach Festival . He taught at the school of the Leipzig St. Thomas Choir and at the Evangelical College for Church Music in Halle . His work focuses on Johann Sebastian Bach and Olivier Messiaen's organ works and improvisation. He is also committed to organ music of the 20th and 21st centuries. His debut CD was released in 2013 with Olivier Messiaen's Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité .
In May 2015 the GewandhausChor Leipzig performed the program The silent war with music by Beilschmidt and four other composers. In the same year Beilschmidt directed the scenic vocal project “incoronata” with the Leipzig choir “Thonkunst” and the “Capella St. Pauli”, which he founded in 2013, where people with and without disabilities played Franco-Flemish vocal polyphony.
Daniel Beilschmidt performed programs together with percussionist Nora Thiele and author Thomas Thieme . In October 2012, his music for Irina Pauls ' dance theater piece Megafon und Stillhalten was heard in the Paul Gerhardt Church in Leipzig- Connewitz . In August 2012, Beilschmidt's organ work Metamorphosis , composed for the great Silbermann organ in Freiberg Cathedral , was premiered. Beilschmidt took part in the band project "Mud Mahaka" on the synthesizer . He is at home in Leipzig.
Discography
- 2017: Fortuna desperata - organ music from Gothic and Renaissance. Daniel Beilschmidt, Swallow's Nest Organ in the Paulinum of the University of Leipzig ; Christine Mothes, vocals; Veit Heller, bells.
- 2016: Winds and Pipes - Music for Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Organ by Peeters, Trachsel, Guilmant, Gigout, Gabrieli and Bach. Saxon Wind Philharmonic; Daniel Beilschmidt, organ; Thomas Clamor, conductor.
- 2013: Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992) - Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité. Daniel Beilschmidt, organ.
Web links
- Works by and with Daniel Beilschmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Daniel Beilschmidt
- Information at hmt-leipzig.de
- Information at reger-in-leipzig.de
- Information at genuin.de
- Information at musiksommer-markranstaedt.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Program sheet for the organ concert in Wurzen Cathedral with Daniel Beilschmidt on August 3, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beilschmidt, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German organist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zeulenroda |