Michael Lochner

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Michael Lochner (* 1952 in Schwarzenbach ) is a German Protestant church musician and organist . He was regional church music director of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria .

Life

Michael Lochner grew up in Hof , Bayreuth and Nuremberg . From 1969 he studied at the Nuremberg Conservatory (today the University of Music ) with Hans-Dieter Bauer piano and with Rudolf Zartner organ, as well as music education. He also worked as a part-time organist, choir director and accompanist in Nuremberg and as a piano teacher with the Windsbach boys' choir . In 1973 he won the 1st Music Prize from the Nuremberg publisher Dr. Joseph E. Drexel. After his artistic state examinations in piano and organ, he did military service in Mittenwald and took over the part-time church music position there . Here he finally decided on church music as a profession.

In 1975 Michael Lochner began studying Protestant church music at the Munich University of Music and Theater , a. a. with Hedwig Bilgram and Diethard Hellmann . After completing the A state examination in 1979, he became dean chantor for the Weilheim- Süd district and tutor for church music in the Protestant tourist churches of Bavaria. In addition to concerts and radio recordings as an organist, he directed the symphony orchestra of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen music school . In 1983 he moved to the Erlöserkirche Bad Kissingen as cantor and became dean cantor for the Schweinfurt district . In 1984 the regional church council appointed him church music director .

In 1991 Michael Lochner was appointed regional church music director of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria in part service to Munich, with the technical supervision of Protestant church music in southern Bavaria. At the same time cantor in the Munich City Church St. Lukas , he founded the Lukas-Chor eV, with which he, in collaboration with members of the Munich orchestras, regularly performed cantatas and oratorios and increasingly dedicated himself to contemporary sacred music. In 1999 he ended this engagement due to a lack of sufficient local church support. He then worked for a few years as a volunteer organist in Munich and played organ concerts in Bavaria. In 2001 he received a teaching position for Protestant church music history, hymnology and liturgy at the University of Music and Theater in Munich.

In 2005 Michael Lochner was appointed full-service regional church music director for the entire area of ​​the Bavarian regional church and in 2010 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Protestant Church Music in Bayreuth . He is the author and editor of numerous publications on church music. His main focus in the last years of his service was the consolidation of Bavarian Protestant church music and the upgrading of the office of cantor among the church professions.

On January 27, 2017, he was bid farewell to his retirement in a church service in St. Lukas in Munich. His successor in office is Ulrich Knörr .

In 2017 Michael Lochner became chairman of the Working Group for Protestant Church Music (AEK) / Friends of the University for Protestant Church Music Bayreuth e. V. elected and thus replaced Professor Dr. Friedemann Hebart, who declined to run again for reasons of age.

Michael Lochner spends his retirement secluded in Benediktbeuern (Upper Bavaria). Occasionally he can still be heard on the organ of the Protestant church in Kochel am See.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Excellent young organist. Dr. Joseph E. Drexel-Förderungspreis 1973. Nürnberger Nachrichten of February 20, 1973.
  2. ↑ a b c d Michael Lochner on the website of the University for Protestant Church Music, Bayreuth , accessed on November 22, 2016,
  3. ↑ Chronicle . In: Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Bad Kissingen . February 11, 2014 ( erloeserkirche.info [accessed December 29, 2017]).
  4. ↑ a b Michael Lochner on the website of the University of Music and Theater in Munich , accessed on November 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ The future of church music lies in working with people in: Gottesdienst und Kirchenmusik Strube, Munich 2017, ISSN  0017-2499 . Issue 1, p. 2.
  6. ↑ Short interview with Michael Lochner on the website of the Landeskirche Bayern, accessed on February 3, 2017.
  7. ↑ Divine service and church music: Under new leadership: Working group for Protestant church music Strube Munich, 2017. ISSN  0017-2499 . Issue 5, p. 18.
personal data
SURNAME Lochner, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician and organist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarzenbach