Dietmar Mettlach

Dietmar Mettlach (* 1950 in Baumholder ) is a German church musician , organist and choir director .

Life

From 1964 to 1969 Mettlach studied Catholic church music at the Institute for Church Music in Mainz and then held two cantor positions in the Diocese of Trier .

From 1980 to 2010 he was diocesan church music director of the Speyer diocese and in this function headed the Episcopal Office for Church Music and the Episcopal Church Music Institute Speyer . Dietmar Mettlach founded the youth choir of the Diocese of Speyer in 1982 .

Also in 1980 he took over the St. Jakobus church choir in Schifferstadt , which he successfully directed until 2005. 5 years later, in 1985, he called the “Palatinate Choir Days for Sacred Music” into being. Within this series of concerts, Dietmar Mettlach performed numerous works with the St. Jakobus Church Choir, and later also the Junge Kantorei Schifferstadt, (Verdi Requiem, Marian Vespers by Monteverdi, St. John Passion by Bach, Elias and Paulus by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and many others).

In 1989 he founded the St. Jakobus Singing School in Schifferstadt and its concert choir "Junge Kantorei", and in 1997 the boys' choir of the Junge Kantorei.

As a choir director, organist and song accompanist, he enjoys a national reputation. With the Junge Kantorei Mettlach went on concert tours in Europe, the USA and Japan. CD recordings and radio recordings were also made by the Kantorei under his direction.

Discography

Recordings with the Junge Kantorei, led by Dietmar Mettlach

• 1995: O santissimo - the Junge Kantorei, St. Jakobus, Schifferstadt sings European Christmas carols
• 1996: Ave Maria - Marian chants
• 1996: The Lord is my Shepherd - sacred music from the Sacred Heart Monastery, Neustadt / Weinstrasse
• 1996: I'm looking forward to the red flowers

As an organist

• 1997: Pan flute and organ (with Matthias Schlubeck , pan flute)

Web links

• Works by and about Dietmar Mettlach in the catalog of the German National Library