Elke Voelker

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Elke Voelker (* 1968 in Lampertheim , Hessen) is a German organist , church musician, organ expert and musicologist .

biography

Elke Voelker first studied school music at the Mannheim University of Music and Romance Studies at the University of Mannheim . She then studied musicology and German at the University of Heidelberg . In 2012 she received her doctorate in musicology from Heidelberg University.

At the same time, from 1992 she studied organ with Leo Krämer in Mannheim. She made the soloist diploma and completed a degree in church music (among others with Hans-Jürgen Kaiser , Mathias Breitschaft , Michael Hofstetter ) in Mainz with the A-exam. In 2009/10 she trained as an organ expert.

She studied abroad with Wolfgang Rübsam in the USA , Nicholas Kynaston in England and Michelle Leclerc, Jean Guillou and Daniel Roth in France .

From 1996 to 2009 she worked as an assistant at the Speyer Cathedral Music , and in 2009 as acting cathedral music director and cathedral organist. She has extensive international concert and guest lecturing activities.

Voelker is a member of the Karg-Elert Archive in London, the Society of Organ Friends (GdO), the American Guild of Organists and an honorary member of the Associazione Organistica Siciliana . She is also the artistic director of the international concert series “Deidesheimer Orgelherbst” (D) and the “International Philharmonic Organ Festival Perm” (GUS).

Awards

  • 1995: Grand Prize and Audience Prize "International Speyer Cathedral Organ Competition"
  • 1999: Finalist at the “Concours International d'Orgue de la Ville de Paris”; Médaille de la Ville de Paris .
  • 2001: Rotary Foundation Fellow
  • 2002: Third prize "International Organ Competition Erfurt"
  • 2003 and 2004: "Diapason Awards" (5 tuning forks) for the CDs Karg-Elert Vol. 2 and Vol. 3
  • 2007: "Répertoire 9" for Karg-Elert Vol. 5

Publications

Voelker published numerous articles in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Bärenreiter), in Organ - Journal for the Organ (Schott) and in the Lexicon of the Organ (Laber).

  • The Estonian composer Rudolf Tobias - life and work . Dissertation University of Heidelberg 2012 (published on HeiDok ).

Discography

  • 1997: Scherzo, sketch, dance . Motet in coproduction with SWR.
  • 1999: Sigfrid Karg-Elert : Ultimate Organ Works. Vol. 1. Aeolus
  • 2002: Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Ultimate Organ Works. Vol. 2. Aeolus.
  • 2003: Noëls d'Orgue du Postromantisme francais. Aeolus.
  • 2004: Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Ultimate Organ Works. Vol. 3. Aeolus.
  • 2006: Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Ultimate Organ Works. Vol. 5. Aeolus. (Choral improvisations volume 1 and 2)
  • 2008: Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Ultimate Organ Works. Vol. 4. Aeolus.
  • 2010: Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Ultimate Organ Works. Vol. 6. Aeolus. (Choral Improvisations Vol. 3 and 4)
  • 2011: Olav Lervik: Ghosts before breakfast (1928)
  • 2014: Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Ultimate Organ Works. Vol. 7. Aeolus. (Choral Improvisations Vol. 5 and 6)
  • 2014: Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Ultimate Organ Works. Vol. 8. Aeolus.
  • 2017: César Franck: Franck avant César Franck . Aeolus.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karg-Elert Archive (London) ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.karg-elert-archive.org.uk
  2. ↑ ORGAN - Organ Journal (Schott) .
  3. ↑ Aeolus
personal data
SURNAME Voelker, Elke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician, concert organist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Lampertheim , Hesse