Institute for Church Music Mainz

Institute for Church Music Mainz
Carrier:	Diocese of Mainz
Ladder:	DKMD Lutz Brenner
Founding year:	1946
Place:	Mainz ( Rhineland-Palatinate )
Training opportunities:	Church music C / D training
Address:	Klarastraße 10, 55116 Mainz

The Institute for Church Music of the Diocese of Mainz was founded after the Second World War as a training center for Catholic church musicians and a coordination center for matters relating to church music within the diocese as a whole. Today around 100 pupils are trained by eight regional cantors for the C and D exams in the subjects of organ and choir conducting on the site of the historic Antoniterkloster .

Contemporary sacred music

In 2010, six regional cantors of the diocese created a "Mainz diocese fair". The ordinarium was set to music with an easy to medium level of difficulty in order to find a broad impact and reception in the target group of simple church choirs. A first copy of the CD was given to the Bishop of Mainz, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, on September 7, 2010.

Well-known church musicians of the diocese

• Dan Zerfass
• Daniel Beckmann
• Karsten Storck

Former church musicians of the diocese

• Heinrich Rohr , head of the institute from its foundation until 1974
• Thomas Drescher
• Mathias Breitschaft
• Thomas Gabriel
• Albert Schoenberger
• Thomas Lennartz
• Andreas Boltz

Web links

• Homepage of the Institute for Church Music

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mainz Diocese News No. 27. Retrieved on December 17, 2019 . 
2. ↑ CD "Mainzer Diocese Fair" presented Mainzer Diocesan News, September 7, 2010