Kay Johannsen

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Kay Johannsen

Kay Johannsen (born October 1, 1961 ) is a German organist , harpsichordist , composer , conductor and choir director .

biography

He studied church music, organ and conducting at the University of Music in Freiburg im Breisgau and in Boston . Since 1994 he has been cantor and organist at the Stiftskirche Stuttgart , where he founded the Stuttgart Cantorei and is the artistic director of the “Hour of Church Music”. In 1998 he was appointed church music director. He has won several prizes at national and international organ competitions, including 1st prize at the German Music Competition in Bonn in 1988.

Since his soloist diploma with distinction, Kay Johannsen has been guest organist at festivals in Europe, Asia, South America, South Africa and the USA. As a soloist in concerts and organ symphonies by Georg Friedrich Händel , CPE Bach, Marco Enrico Bossi , Richard Strauss , Josef Gabriel Rheinberger , Camille Saint-Saëns , Marcel Dupré , Francis Poulenc , Peter Förtig , Georg Katzer , Hans-Jürgen von Bose and Wolfgang Rihm he has performed with many symphony orchestras at home and abroad. Johannsen can also be experienced as an organ improviser .

As a figured bass player, he was with the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado , the Vienna Philharmonic under Trevor Pinnock and the Berlin Baroque Soloists. Radio recordings were made at home and abroad, as well as numerous CDs with organ works by Bach, Boëly, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Liszt, Franck, which have been awarded prizes (such as the “ Diapason d'or ” and the “Golden Bobby” of the Association of German Tonmeister) Reger, Widor and Förtig.

In the summer of 2007 he played all of Johann Sebastian Bach's organ works in a concert cycle on the new Mühleisen organ of the Stuttgart collegiate church (documented in a CD recording). He made his debut as a harpsichordist in 2003 with the Goldberg Variations , followed by the Art of Fugue in 2004, the Well-Tempered Clavier I in 2005 and the Six Partitas in 2006. Johannsen's choir and organ compositions are published by Carus-Verlag .

As a conductor, Kay Johannsen performed with his ensembles, the Stuttgart Kantorei , the Ensemble 94 and the Soloistenensemble Stimmkunst, oratorio works by Georg Friedrich Händel , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Franz Schmidt ( The Book with Seven Seals ), Frank Martin ( Golgotha ) and Wolfgang Rihm on. In special thematic cycles he also dedicates himself to the oratorios, cantatas, orchestral concerts and chamber music by JS Bach.

Prizes and awards

Compositions (selection)

  • Night Bus (Organ Opera, 2010)
  • Concerto for organ , strings and percussion (2014)
  • Hers ist das Himmelreich for soli, choir and orchestra (2015)
  • Credo in Deum for solos, choir and orchestra (2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Staufer Medal to Kay Johannsen. State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, January 19, 2018, accessed on January 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Kay Johannsen: "Nachtbus" (organ opera; video document from the world premiere on September 5, 2010). In: YouTube. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Kay Johannsen: "Concerto for organ, strings and percussion" (video document of the world premiere on August 1, 2014). In: YouTube. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Kay Johannsen: Hers is the Kingdom of Heaven (video document from the performance on October 27, 2017). In: YouTube. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Kay Johannsen: "Credo in Deum"; Video document of the performance on October 27, 2017. In: YouTube. Accessed March 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Johannsen, Kay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist, harpsichordist, conductor and choir director
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1961