Markus Uhl (musician)

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Markus Uhl (born July 13, 1978 in Offenburg ) is a German church musician , musicologist and university professor .

Life

Markus Uhl received his first organ lessons at the age of 14. After graduating from high school, he studied church music (B) and postgraduate church music (A) from 1998 to 2004 at the Freiburg University of Music with Zsigmond Szathmáry (organ) and Hans-Michael Beuerle (choir direction). From 2004 to 2006 he studied organ and organ improvisation with Michael Kapsner at the "Franz Liszt" Music Academy in Weimar . He studied musicology and philosophy in Heidelberg and Essen. With a work on "The Choral Reform in the Result of the Council of Trent and the Editio Medicaea (1614/15)" he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD .

During his studies he worked as a church musician in St. Ulrich and in the Freiburg area, and he also directed the Kinzigtal Chamber Choir. Since January 2007, he has been the district choirmaster of the Archdiocese of Freiburg for the deaneries in Heidelberg-Weinheim and Wiesloch as well as for church music at the Jesuit Church in Heidelberg . As a choir director he directs the Cappella Palatina Heidelberg and various project ensembles. He supervised the new organs of the Kuhn company (2009 and 2014) in the Jesuit church and works as organist on both instruments. He also gives concerts at home and abroad on a regular basis.

As a lecturer he teaches organ improvisation, organ literature, Gregorian chant, hymnology, German liturgical singing and liturgical singing at colleges and universities in Weimar, Freiburg and Heidelberg. From 2011 to 2017 he was a lecturer at the International Gregorian Chant Summer Courses in Essen. In October 2019 he was appointed church music director by Archbishop Stephan Burger .

As chairman of the Federal Association of Catholic Church Musicians in Germany (BKKD), he campaigned for the labor law and financial issues of the professional group of church musicians from 2008 to 2014.

Prizes and awards

At the International Competition for Young Choir Directors in Budapest in June 2001 he received the special prize of the Franz Liszt Academy for the best interpretation of a work by Franz Liszt .

For his diploma thesis he received the Helene Rosenberg Prize for the best musicological work of 2002.

In 2005 he was a finalist in the competition at the International Organ Festival in Bochum and a prize winner at the IX. International organ improvisation competition in Schwäbisch Gmünd, at the 2nd International Johann Joseph Fux Competition and at the “Organ improvisation in worship” competition.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Three new church music directors for the archdiocese. Archdiocese of Freiburg, October 16, 2019, accessed on August 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Uhl, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist, choir director and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenburg