Jens Wollenschläger

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Jens Wollenschläger (* 1976 in Bad Bergzabern ) is a German organist , Protestant church musician and university professor .

life and work

Jens Wollenschläger grew up in Landau in the Palatinate and studied church music (A-exam) at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart with Bernhard Haas , Hans Martin Corrinth , Rebecca Maurer and Oleg Maisenberg as well as in the soloist class in the organ (concert exam with Award) with Pieter van Dijk at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater .

He held a teaching position in the subjects of organ and organ improvisation at the church music seminars of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate in Speyer and Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . He worked as a cantor and organist at the Ulm Minster (internship) as well as a partial assignment as a district cantor in Aalen . Jens Wollenschläger was cantor in Stuttgart-Möhringen , organist at the Martinskirche there and head of the Möhringer Martinskantorei, as well as organ expert of the Württemberg regional church .

Wollenschläger is a harpsichordist with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra , the Southwest German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim and the Baroque Orchestra of the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival . On behalf of the Association of Evangelical Church Music in Württemberg, he also leads courses in organ literature playing and improvisation. About 80 recorded CDs, various prizes, his composing and international concert activities (concert tours to Japan, Norway, Lithuania, among others) are further facets of his work. The largest German organ magazine, Organ , named him “Performer of the Year” in 2010 in recognition of his CD recording Alt-Hamburgischer Organistenspiegel .

In June 2014 Jens Wollenschläger became first organist at the Tübingen collegiate church and professor for artistic and liturgical organ playing at the Evangelical University for Church Music in Tübingen . He has also been the university's prorector since March 2015.

Discography (selection)

  • Old Hamburg organist mirror . Hamburg organ music from the 16th to 18th centuries Century with works by Georg Böhm , the Hamburg family Praetorius, Heinrich Scheidemann , Matthias Weckmann and others (Arp Schnitger organ (1693) main church St. Jacobi Hamburg), organ / IFO 2010.
  • Franz von Suppé : Missa dalmatica for male choir and organ . Lords of the Chords; Jens Wollenschläger, organ. Carus 2011.
  • Milen Haralambov & Jens Wollenschläger - trumpet and organ . Works by César Franck , Edvard Grieg , Richard Wagner and Eugène Bozza (Goll organ Stadtkirche Nürtingen), Animato 2007

bibliography

  • "From Praetorian Seriousness and Scheidemannic Lieblichkeit", Organ , 3/2010, pp. 16-23.
  • Chronicle of a sound carrier production, Organ , 3/2010, pp. 4–12.
  • "How beautifully the morning star shines" - music from the Tübingen collegiate church, 1945–2015 commemorative publication 70 years of the University for Church Music Tübingen, p. 39/40
  • Harry Holzwurm and the Queen - An Organ Tour for Children, 2012

Compositions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Church Music Tübingen. Retrieved February 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Homepage of Jens Wollenschläger. Retrieved February 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Wollschläger, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist and Protestant church musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Bergzabern