Holger Boenstedt

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Holger Boenstedt (* 1954 in Gronau / Westphalia ) is a German organist, harpsichordist and conductor.

Life

Boenstedt studied school and church music at the music academies in Detmold and Hamburg , a. a. with Helmut Tramnitz and Heinz Wunderlich (organ) as well as Martin Stephani and Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg (conducting). Masterclasses with Anton Heiller , Gaston Litaize and Harald Vogel (organ) as well as Helmuth Rilling and Sergiu Celibidache (conducting) followed. In 1975 he was a laureate of the Protestant Church Music Training Centers, 1977 scholarship of the DAAD in Harlem (NL). From 1977 to 1985 Boenstedt was cantor at the Schlosskirche Ahrensburg (Schleswig-Holstein) and from 1986 to 2012 cantor and organist at the Markuskirche in Munich . In 1994 he was awarded the title of church music director .

His work with the Markus Choir in Munich, which he founded in 1986, encompassed choral music from a cappella to oratorio and from baroque to contemporary music. Under his leadership found u. a. the Munich premieres of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem and the church opera “Mass” by Leonard Bernstein take place in St. Markus. The "Schwabinger Bach Ensemble" was founded by him. As an organist, he performed parts of the works by Buxtehude, Bach, Mendelssohn, Franck and Widor. Concert tours have taken him to Europe and America.

Recordings

  • German organ romanticism, with works by F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, J. Reubke, F. Liszt, M. Reger, 2005
  • Organ Literature Canon, Volume 1, with works by JS Bach, M. Reger, F. Liszt, C. Franck, T. Dubois, Edition Sonntagsblatt München 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website St. Markus Munich ( Memento from September 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Church building and community development of St. Markus in Munich 1945-2010 , Rahden / Munich 2012, p. 147f. 183f.

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personal data
SURNAME Boenstedt, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist, harpsichordist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Gronau / Westphalia