Frank Höndgen
Frank Höndgen (born July 9, 1967 in Bonn ) is a German musicologist and church musician and in this position singer , choir director , conductor and author .
Life
Frank Höndgen studied Catholic church music at the Cologne University of Music and Dance with, among others, Clemens Ganz and Jürgen Kursawa (organ), Henning Frederichs and Reiner Schuhenn (choir and orchestra direction) and completed master classes with Frieder Bernius , Uwe Gronostay , Paul Hillier, Erwin Ortner , Michail Jurowski , Stephen Cleobury , David Hill, James Lancelot and Peter Neumann .
He conducted studies in Gregorian chant (courses and assistance with Stefan Klöckner ). In 2012 he received his doctorate in musicology from the University of Art and Design Graz with the dissertation The Antiphons of the Münsterschwarzach Abbey - a study of the history of its origins and compositional structure . In 2014 he received the Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music .
At the priest training centers in Bonn and Cologne he held teaching positions for singing, liturgical singing and school management. As a singer and soloist, he was mainly active with the Cologne Chamber Choir and the Kartäuserkantorei Cologne under the direction of Peter Neumann, where he also took on the rehearsal of great sacred works such as Mendelssohn's Elias , Schubert's E-flat major Mass, Franck's Beatitudes and Mozart's Requiem.
From 1998 to 2003 Höndgen was artistic director of the chamber choir Bonner Praetorius-Gemeinschaft (now Figuralchor Bonn), u. a. with appearances at the EXPO 2000 in Hanover. From 2000 to 2005 he held the position of regional cantor at the Wuppertal inner city parish of St. Antonius in Barmen. From 2008 to 2011 he was a lecturer for ensemble conducting at the Institute for Music Education at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
Höndgen is co-editor of a choir book series for the new hymn book Gotteslob (Carus-Verlag 2013) including CD production. Since 2005 he has been choir director at the Michaelskirche in Munich with choir and orchestral work with various ensembles (Michael choir, orchestra, chamber choir, Collegium monacense, Choralschola) in liturgy, concerts and CD productions. He works with orchestras in the state capital of Munich, such as the Bavarian State Orchestra , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic , and with conductors such as Kent Nagano , Zubin Mehta , Dan Ettinger and Valery Gergiev .
Web links
- Frank Höndgen's online presence with biography, discography and bibliography
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| SURNAME | Höndgen, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German church musician, singer, choir director, conductor, author and musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |