Krystian Skoczowski

Krystian Skoczowski (born October 25, 1968 in Hanau ) is a German church musician .

Life

He received his first musical lessons at the age of 10 on the violin from Harm Otten ( RSO Frankfurt ), at 15 also organ and piano from KMD Gerhard Holzner ( Marienkirche, Hanau ). He was a student at Dr. Hoch's conservatory in Frankfurt am Main and studied church music in Freiburg im Breisgau (1995 A-exam), organ with Zsigmond Szathmáry .

He has an additional academic qualification in the field of monument protection (2002 Master of Preservation of Cultural Properties, Monuments and Sites) from the European University Viadrina , Frankfurt (Oder) . This study served him particularly as a deepening of his knowledge in the organ monument preservation.

From 1994 to 1998 he was cantor at the Breisacher Münster , from 1998 to 2003 at the Dominican Monastery and the Church of St. Paulus in Berlin and from 2003 to 2007 at the pilgrimage church of St. Lutwinus in Mettlach .

Since 2007 he has been working as a freelance musician and music teacher. At the Institute for Music Education at the University of Cologne , he teaches ear training and harmony in the music education course . He also teaches organ, music theory, liturgical singing and Gregorian chant at the Institute for Church Music of the Diocese of Mainz . He holds seminars on Gregorian chant in church schools and as part of international music courses in Arosa (Switzerland).

As an organist he gives concerts at home and abroad. He composes organ, church and chamber music. He is also artistic director of the Armsheimer Organ Summer on the organ of Johann Michael Stumm from 1739 and of the Upper Hessian Organ Summer.

Skoczowski received his doctorate in 2017 from the University of Cologne with a thesis on the Hessian organ builder family Zinck .

Krystian Skoczowski is organist and choirmaster at the parish church of St. Elisabeth in Hanau-Kesselstadt.

Gregorian chant

A special focus of his work is Gregorian chant . Initially trained only on the basis of Gregorian semiology , he developed a differentiated and pragmatic approach to the interpretation of Gregorian chant in church music practice. He was influenced by the singing style of the monasteries Marienstatt (Westerwald, Cistercians) and Clervaux (Luxembourg, Benedictines) as well as by the intensive dialogue and common practice with Carlo Hommel , with whom he was a warm friend. He consciously cultivates and teaches both major interpretations of Gregorian chant: both traditional performance practice (based on the Graduale Romanum of 1908 or the Solesmes school ) and interpretation based on the knowledge of Gregorian semiology.

Sound carrier

Noel en Europe. European organ music for Christmas by Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, César Franck, Léon Boellmann, Marco Enrico Bossi and Feliks Nowowiejski (recorded 1997 on the Martin Rinckenbach organ in Ensisheim, Alsace, SCACD 43207).

Rosarium Dominicanum. Introduction to the Rosary by P. Michael M. Dillmann OP and P. Dr. Thomas Grießbach OP, Marian chants of the Gregorian and Dominican tradition and St. Hildegard von Bingen, Ensemble Virga Strata Berlin, More-Verlag Berlin 2003/2004.

Fonts

• Krystian Skoczowski: The organ building family Zinck. A contribution to the research of organ building in the Wetterau and the Kinzig valley in the 18th century. Haag + Herchen, Hanau 2018, ISBN 978-3-89846-824-4 .

Web links

• Official homepage of Krystian Skoczowski