Monika Henking

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Monika Henking (* 1944 in Winterthur ) is a Swiss church musician , organist and university teacher .

Life

Monika Henking, born in Winterthur in 1944, grew up in a musical family. She is the daughter of the church musician and composer Bernhard Henking , from whom she received her first music lessons at an early age. Her older brother Arwed Henking (* 1936) also became a church musician. After graduating from high school, she studied piano , organ , oboe and choir conducting at the Winterthur Conservatory . She completed her studies with degrees in piano and organ. At the Musikhochschule Wien she then obtained a concert diploma for organ from Anton Heiller with distinction and a state award. Her fellow students include Eduard Claucig , Hermann Kronsteiner , Alfred Mitterhofer and Peter Planyavsky .

The Reformed Church of Thalwil was Monika Henking's place of work for 40 years

As the successor to Hans Vollenweider , she took up her first position as organist at the Kuhn organ in the Reformed Church in Thalwil on January 1, 1970 , where she worked for 40 years. In April 2010 she handed over this task to Gerda Dillmann. She worked as a lecturer for organ playing at the Academy for School and Church Music in Lucerne for 33 years.

In the Jesuit Church in Lucerne on September 26, 1982 she was the organist of the newly built Metzler organ at the premiere of Albert Jenny's work Three Latin Songs for Holy Mass . In the Bach year 1985, the entire organ work of Bach was reproduced in this church under her artistic direction. In 1995 she dedicated her transcription of Anton Heiller's improvisation on the Gregorian chorale " Ave maris stella " , which was made between 1988 and 1990 and which inspired the audience at the consecration of the Rudigier organ in December 1968 and set standards in the field of improvisation long-standing Linz cathedral organist Wolfgang Kreuzhuber . Together with Stephan Simeon and later with Stefan Albrecht, she led the youth singing weeks of the Engadiner Kantorei in the Laudinella cultural center in St. Moritz . She was also the choirmaster of the Thalwil Youth Choir, the Schütz-Kantorei Thalwil and the Lucerne Chamber Choir.

Monika Henking has worked internationally as a concert organist, including in the United States and Japan . She has received awards at various international competitions and was also a juror at international competitions.

Henking's CD recordings include works by Bach and Vincent Lübeck , a two-movement sonata by Johann Melchior Dreyer, the Toccata by Eugène Gigout , the Sortie in E flat major by Lefébure-Wély , an Andante by GA Merkel , a sonata movement by Rheinberger and works by Messiaen and Jehan Alain .

The composers Anton Heiller, Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter , Ernst Pfiffner and her husband Franz Rechsteiner dedicated works to her.

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

  • Come and let us honor Christ. A sung nativity play.
  • The moon has risen. For flute, violin, viola, violoncello, double bass, organ.
  • Ed .: Anton Heiller: "Now come, the Heiden Heiland." Variations for organ. 1985.
  • Anton Heiller: Improvisation on the Gregorian chant "Ave maris stella". [Transcription for organ by Monika Henking]. Ludwig Doblinger publishing house, Vienna / Munich 1994.
  • with Urs Fischer: the organ builder Friedrich Haas (1811–1886). Fotorotar, Zurich 2002, p. 49 ff + CD accompanying the monograph.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gabriela Schöb Friday: Church music as food for life ( Memento from February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Theo Lustenberger: Monika Henking. In: musinfo.ch. Retrieved January 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Peter Planyavsky: Saved from St. Stephen's Cathedral. Edition va bene, 2007, ISBN 978-3-851-67188-9 , p. 55 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ a b c Bettina Ledergerber: In love with the fifth evangelist. Tages-Anzeiger , January 23, 2010, accessed October 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Wolfgang W. Müller: Search for the Unconditional: Spiritual Traces in Art . Theological Publishing House Zurich, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-290-20046-6 , p. 62 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Stefanie Petelin: ORGEL.SUMMER: Wolfgang Kreuzhuber's FREI.SPIEL. Dommusikverein Linz, August 1, 2019, accessed on October 21, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Guido Berlinger-Bolt: “What gives people hope”. In: St. Galler Tagblatt . April 23, 2011, accessed October 21, 2019 .
  8. ^ Peter Planyavsky : Anton Heiller, organist, composer, conductor. Boydell & Brewer, 2014, p. 115. online
  9. ^ Peter Planyavsky: Anton Heiller, organist, composer, conductor. Boydell & Brewer, 2014, p. 115.
  10. ↑ Friedrich Jakob: Review in: Journal for Swiss Archeology and Art History , 62 (2005), Issue 1, p. 56f.
personal data
SURNAME Henking, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss church musician, organist and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur