Gerhard Jentschke

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Gerhard Jentschke (* 1955 ) is a German church musician and organist.

Musical career and education

Gerhard Jentschke studied school music with the state examination as well as church music with the A-examination at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . He then deepened his organ studies at the Musikhochschule Heidelberg-Mannheim in the master class with Leo Krämer with the degree of artistic maturity and in master courses with Nicolas Kynaston (London), André Fleury (Paris) and Flor Peeters (Mechelen).

He took part in national and international competitions in interpretation and improvisation and was awarded several prizes (organ competition of the cultural group of the BDI in Ottobeuren, Nuremberg International Organ Week, Wiesbaden Bach Competition / Interpretation and Improvisation). Concert engagements followed, including a. a. also two world premieres.

In 1998 he made a recording of works by Max Reger , Sigfrid Karg-Elert , Flor Peeters and Charles-Marie Widor on the Rieger organ of the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche in Zweibrücken .

Professional

Gerhard Jentschke is a church musician at the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche in Zweibrücken and a full-time lecturer at the Kaiserslautern branch of the Episcopal Church Music Institute (BKI) of the Diocese of Speyer. Previously, he taught the organ at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz.

Discography

  • The Lord is my shepherd: Sacred music from the Sacred Heart Monastery, Neustadt / Weinstrasse. 1995, HJK950827 (CD)
  • Gerhard Jentschke at the new Rieger organ from Hl. Kreuz zu Zweibrücken. Organ works by Reger, Karg-Elert, Peeters, Widor. 1998, IFO DD 00148 (CD)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Josef Herbort: ZEIT ONLINE . In: The time . No. 03/1998 ( online ).
  2. ^ Markus Eichenlaub: Lecturers - Church Music, Diocese of Speyer. In: www.kirchenmusik-bistum-speyer.de. Retrieved June 3, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Time culture . DIE ZEIT, 03/1998
personal data
SURNAME Jentschke, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician and organist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955