Jan Katzschke

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Jan Katzschke (born January 31, 1972 in Neustadt am Rübenberge ) is a German harpsichordist , organist and church musician .

Life

Jan Katzschke studied from 1991 to 1997 at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media . His teachers include Hans Christoph Becker-Foss (organ), Lajos Rovatkay (harpsichord) and Heinz Hennig (choir director). From 1995 to 1997 he was cantor in Mulda , Zethau and Helbigsdorf in the Ore Mountains. Here he initiated the restoration of the historic Adam Gottfried Oehme organ from 1788 in Zethau, which was completed in 2001.

From 1997 to 2002 he lived freelance in Freiberg (Saxony) , among other things as conductor of the Collegium Musicum of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg . From 2002 to 2005 he lived in southern Baden and did private harpsichord studies with Robert Hill .

In 2004 he recorded works by Matthias Weckmann on harpsichord and lute for the label cpo . This production was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize in 2007 . This was followed by further solo CD recordings that were released by the cpo and querstand labels .

2005–2017 he was cantor and organist of the Ev.-Luth. Diakonissenanstalt Dresden . Here he conducted monthly Bach cantatas and initiated the “Organ Winter” festival. Since then he has lived again in his hometown Neustadt am Rübenberge , where he founded the Neustädter Land Chamber Choir.

In 2007 he was appointed to the executive committee of the Gottfried Silbermann Society in Freiberg, to which he has been a member since then. From 2011 to 2014 he was also its vice-president. Since 2009 he has been teaching organ at the Dresden University of Church Music .

Jan Katzschke gives concerts as a soloist, chamber musician and conductor. He also conducts research in the field of music from the 16th to 18th centuries. The Latvian composer Rihards Dubra dedicated the works Super Flumina Babylonis for harpsichord and Ostinato, Fuga e quasi una Toccata (2011) for organ, published by Musica Baltica, to him .

Discography (selection)

  • 2004: This is how the clarinet serves on pleasant white ... Chamber music with chalumeau and baroque clarinet. With Christian Leitherer and Barbara Leitherer. Ambitus.
  • 2006: The lovely looks. Keyboard music by Matthias Weckmann. Harpsichord and lute solo. cpo.
  • 2010: The soul's paradise. Bach cantatas BWV 35 and BWV 169 with an obligatory organ. Transverse stand.
  • 2012: Bella fiamma del mio cor. Chamber cantatas from the apartments of the Saxon Electress Maria Antonia Walpurgis . With Barbara Christina Steude. NCA.
  • 2013: Johann Kuhnau : Fresh Clavier Fruits. Harpsichord solo. cpo.
  • 2015: I went to walk once. Keyboard music by Hans Leo Haßler . Harpsichord and organ. Transverse stand.
  • 2016: Up from the sky. Christmas organ works and songs by Johann Sebastian Bach . With Britta Schwarz. Transverse stand.

Fonts (selection)

  • Everything that breathes… In: Albrecht Koch (Ed.): “The first in the world” - Gottfried Silbermann and the Freiberg cathedral organ from 1714. Chemnitzer Verlag, 2014.
  • The organ in the Freiberg church music around 1735. In: Berit Drechsel (Ed.): The Gottfried Silbermann organ of the Petrikirche in Freiberg; Origin - change - reconstruction. Sandstein-Verlag, Dresden 2007.
  • Music around 1600 in and around Freiberg. In: The electoral burial chapel in Freiberg Cathedral. Edited by Karl-Hermann Kandler . 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Festschrift for the rededication of the Oehme organ (1788) Zethau. Ev.-Luth. Parish of Zethau / Erzgebirge, 2001.
  2. ↑ http://cmfreiberg.de/chronik-1997/
  3. ↑ http://www.schallplattenkritik.de/component/content/article/62-bestenlisten-2007/279-bestenliste-1-2007
  4. ↑ https://www.neuepresse.de/Region/Neustadt-am-Ruebenberge/Nachrichten/Aus-dem-Kammerchor-Helstorf-wird-der-Kammerchor-Neustaedter-Land
  5. ↑ http://www.silbermann.org/
  6. ↑ http://kirchenmusik-dresden.de/dozenten.html?dozstat=l
personal data
SURNAME Katzschke, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician, harpsichordist and organist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt am Rübenberge