Johannes Skudlik

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Johannes Skudlik (2020)

Johannes Skudlik (born February 16, 1957 in Munich ) is a German organist and conductor .

Life

After graduating from high school, he studied church music and concert organ with Gerhard Weinberger and Franz Lehrndorfer at the University of Music in Munich and successfully completed the A-exam. Since 1979 Skudlik has been cantor at the parish church Mariae Himmelfahrt in Landsberg am Lech . He founded and directs the Landsberg Oratorio Choir, the Capella Cantabile Landsberg, the Con-brio Chamber Orchestra and the Europa Antiqua Consort for early music.

Johannes Skudlik has been a guest at festivals in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece with various vocal and instrumental ensembles. As a conductor, Skudlik has also performed symphonic works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky and Mahler, often together with members of the Berlin Philharmonic , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Munich Radio Orchestra .

In 2008 Johannes Skudlik conducted the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the performance of Bach's Mass in B minor . In the same year Skudlik gave concerts on the " Doppio Borgato ", the grand piano by the Italian piano manufacturer Luigi Borgato, which was performed for the first time in Germany.

Johannes Skudlik is often engaged as an interpreter or conductor of world premieres. He has a particularly close collaboration with the composer Enjott Schneider and, more recently, with the composer and organist Jean Guillou . There are now more than 20 CD recordings with harpsichord, organ and chamber music as well as choral and oratorical works on the labels ambitus and Motette. Radio recordings were produced in cooperation with RIAS Berlin , WGBH Radio Boston, Polish Television, RAI I and Bavarian Broadcasting.

Johannes Skudlik is the artistic director of the “Landsberg Concerts”, the “Bavarian Organ Summer”, which was held for the first time in 2008, and the Organ Festival in Palermo. He is also the initiator, artistic director and performing artist at European festivals: 2005 “Europe's organ festival Via Claudia Augusta”; 2006 “Mozart on the journey to…”, 2008 at the “Euro-Via-Festival Ways to Rome” and 2011 “Euro-Via-Festival: From Rome To Santiago”. In addition, Johannes Skudlik is the artistic director of the international organ competition “Orgelstadt Landsberg”.

In 2009 and 2010 Skudlik devoted himself mainly to the works of Jean Guillou: Guillous La Révolte des Orgues for 9 organs, percussion and conductor was performed under Skudlik's direction in the Philharmonics of Munich, Berlin and Cologne and also in Paris, Rome, Gdansk and Porto. In April 2018 the work will be performed on the occasion of Jean Guillou's 88th birthday in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - Jean Guillou, Organ - Elbphilharmonie. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Skudlik, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich