Johanna Irmscher
Johanna Irmscher (* 1952 in Bad Mergentheim ) is a German church musician and professor of choral conducting, choral singing and orchestral conducting at the Evangelical University for Church Music in Tübingen .
As early as 1973 Irmscher was a prizewinner in the organ competition of the church music training centers in Germany. She studied church music at the Evangelical University for Church Music Esslingen and at the Folkwang University in Essen, where she graduated in 1979 with the A-exam for church music. She conducted further guest studies in the composition class of Wolfgang Hufschmied and for orchestral conducting with Helmuth Rilling at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts . She then went on to study Kapellmeister with Walter Hügler at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen , graduating in 1984 with the Kapellmeister exam. They carried out further studies with Frieder Bernius , Sergiu Celibidache and Eric Ericson . From 1979 to 1984 she was a lecturer for choral conducting in various governing bodies of the IAM in Kassel and the Evangelical Church in Württemberg. From 1983 to 1984 she was the artistic director of the Chamber Orchestra of the University of Stuttgart, representing the permanent conductor.
From 1981 to 1988 she worked as a full-time church musician, initially in Stuttgart-Botnang, later as district cantor and director of the Bach Choir in Ravensburg . Since 1988 she has held a full-time professorship for choral conducting and choral singing, and since 1998 also for orchestral conducting at the Evangelical University for Church Music, initially in Esslingen, and since moving in 1998 to Tübingen. From 1989 to 1999 she directed the Esslingen Chamber Orchestra. Since 1995 she has been the director of the Hohenlohe Chamber Choir Schwäbisch Hall.
She is co-founder of the biennial Bach Night in Tübingen , which she designs together with Ulrich Siegele , Ingo Bredenbach and Tobias Hiller . In 2005 she founded the professional vocal ensemble Cantus de tempore in Tübingen.
Web links
- Works by and about Johanna Irmscher in the catalog of the German National Library
- CANTUS DE TEMPORE Tübingen - Homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical information on the pages of the HKM Tübingen
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| SURNAME | Irmscher, Johanna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German church musician and professor of choral conducting, choral singing and orchestral conducting |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |