Lukas Stollhof

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Lukas Stollhof (* 1980 in Neunkirchen (Saar) ) is a German organist, choir director and composer. He has been regional cantor in Oberwesel am Rhein (Diocese of Trier) since 2008 and was a lecturer at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf from 2010–2018 .

education

Lukas Stollhof received his first piano lessons at the age of six, and later on, harmony and aural training lessons. At the age of 13 he began taking organ lessons with Gisbert Wüst, five years later he switched to Christoph Anselm Noll .

After graduating from the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium Neuwied , he studied church music and instrumental pedagogy with Ludger Lohmann at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart from 2000 as a scholarship holder of the Study Foundation of the German People . With the help of a scholarship from the Rotary Club , he completed a one-year course at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Jacques van Oortmerssen , which he completed with a Bachelor of music exam. He then completed the A-exam church music (organ with Bernhard Haas ) again in Stuttgart , the additional course in choral conducting / oratorio / vocal ensemble with Dieter Kurz and the soloist course in organ with Bernhard Haas.

activities

Lukas Stollhof has been regional cantor in Oberwesel am Rhein and for the diocese of Trier since 2008. For the 200th birthday of the composers Mendelssohn Bartholdy (2009), Robert Schumann (2010) and Franz Liszt (2011), he played all of their organ works in a concert cycle. He also recorded Mendelssohn Bartholdy's organ compositions on two CDs in 2009. Lukas Stollhof held a teaching position for organ at the Robert Schumann University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf from 2010–2018. In 2016, in the 100th year of Max Reger's death, he played his great organ works in a cycle in the Liebfrauenkirche Oberwesel and recorded them at the gaming table for the YouTube Internet portal. In 2017, Louis Vierne's 80th year of death, followed a cycle with his six organ symphonies.

Prizes and awards

  • 3rd place at the International ARD Music Competition , Munich , 2011
  • 3rd place at the Bach Competition in Leipzig , 2008
  • 3rd place at the Eberhard Friedrich Walcker Competition in Schramberg , 2008
  • 3rd place at the Bach Liszt Organ Competition in Erfurt , 2008
  • 2nd place at the Bach competition in Arnstadt , 2007
  • 1st prize at the International Organ Interpretation Competition for the Bach Prize in Wiesbaden , 2007
  • 2nd prize at the 1st Franz Schmidt Organ Competition, Kitzbühel / Austria, 2006
  • 3rd prize at the 1st International Philipp Wolfrum Competition, Heidelberg, 2004
  • 3rd prize at the International Organ Competition, Laubach / Hessen, 2004
  • Culture Prize Young Artists of the City of Neuwied, 2000

Organ concert cycles

  • 2017: Louis Vierne : The six organ symphonies for the 80th year of death (complete recordings for YouTube)
  • 2016: Max Reger : The 15 great organ works for the 100th year of death (complete recordings for YouTube)
  • 2011: Franz Liszt : The entire organ work for his 200th birthday
  • 2010: Robert Schumann : The organ for the 200th birthday
  • 2009: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy : The entire organ work for his 200th birthday (recorded on two CDs)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b International pilgrimage to Rome; Diocese of Trier ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / minis-rom2010.de
  2. ^ WHG Alumni , homepage of the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium Neuwied , accessed on December 22, 2018.
  3. ↑ Organ summer 2013 - 5th organ concert with Lukas Stollhoff , homepage of the Evangelical Church Congregation Trier, accessed on December 22, 2018
  4. ^ BR Online
personal data
SURNAME Stollhof, Lukas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician, organist
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen (Saar)