Jürgen Böhme

Jürgen Böhme (born October 23, 1955 in Osterode am Harz ) is a German church musician and conductor.

Life

Böhme grew up in Kiel , Plön and Flensburg . Böhme studied conducting, church music and artistic organ playing at the Cologne University of Music . He studied musicology, philosophy and German at the University of Bonn . There he received his doctorate in 1987 with a dissertation on the Hindemith teacher Arnold Mendelssohn as Dr. phil.

As a full-time church musician, Böhme first worked in Lünen in Westphalia and then as an orchestra conductor in Hamm . This was followed by activities as choir director of the Halleschen Philharmonie and as director of the Robert Franz Singing Academy in Halle an der Saale , as well as university music director in Saarbrücken . From 2000 to September 2006 he was academic music director and university lecturer for artistic practice and conducting at the University of Koblenz-Landau and, in addition to the university choir, he also directed the “Young Symphony Orchestra Koblenz”. Until 2004 he also held the position of artistic director of the international "Jacques Offenbach Festival" in Bad Ems.

Since then, the Celibidache student has devoted himself exclusively to conducting and has made regular guest appearances with choirs and orchestras at home and abroad, most recently with orchestras in the Russian Federation (Kaliningrad, Lipetsk, Voronezh, St. Petersburg). Guest invitations also took him to England, Switzerland and Italy.

In 2004 he took over the musical direction of the Koblenz Police Choir , from spring 2007 to spring 2009 he directed the Bonn Bach Choir , before he resigned as director.

Discography

Jürgen Böhme was in charge of the following productions:

• Open the gates. Kissing, Hamburg; Distribution: Fono-Schallplattengesellschaft Wildner. Laer (1996)
• Hans-Georg Wolos: The children of Girouan. Leico Records, Schmelz (1999)
• Festive concert. Leico Records, Schmelz (1999)

Fonts

• Composition around 1920 in the field of tension between tradition and modernity, shown using the example of Arnold Mendelssohn's piano and chamber music. (Dissertation), University of Bonn, 1986.
• Arnold Mendelssohn and his piano and chamber music (= European university publications. Series 36: Musicology 30). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1987, ISBN 3-8204-0958-0 .
• Paths to early music. Fritz Neumeyer. Stations and documents (= publications of the Saarland University and State Library 2). Röhrig, St. Ingbert 1996, ISBN 3-86110-097-5 .

Web links

• Works by Jürgen Böhme in the catalog of the German National Library