Nicolo Sokoli
Nicolo Sokoli (born February 25, 1973 in Rüsselsheim ) is a German church musician , conductor , music teacher and organist .
Life
Nicolo Sokoli studied from 1993 to 1999 church music (A-exam 1997), choir and orchestral conducting (diploma 1999) and concert organ playing (diploma 1999) at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt / Main. His teachers included Daniel Roth (organ) as well as Wolfgang Schäfer and Winfried Toll (choir direction). Master classes with Ludger Lohmann , Wolfgang Rübsam , Christoph Bossert (organ) and Eric Ericson (choir director) round off his training.
In 1998 he founded the vocal ensemble Cantemus, which he directed until 2016. From 2002 to 2016 he worked as regional cantor for the dean's offices Wetterau-Ost and -West, from 1998 to 2016 as a lecturer for voice training and organ playing at the Institute for Church Music / Mainz and from 1999 to 2016 as an organ expert on behalf of the diocese of Mainz. In 2002 he was appointed artistic director of the Marburg Bach Choir. From 2013 to 2016 Sokoli also worked as a choirmaster and organist at the Einhard Basilica of St. Marzellinus and Petrus in Seligenstadt.
With his ensembles and as an organist, he regularly gives concerts at home and abroad. Concert tours with the Marburg Bach Choir have taken him to Bulgaria, Romania, England, Slovenia and Poland in recent years.
Some CD and radio recordings document Nicolo Sokoli's work. Most recently, the first recording of the “Missa Nativitatis Domini” by Jan Dismas Zelenka with the Marburg Bach Choir and the baroque orchestra L'arpa festante was released on the Leipzig label “Genuin”.
From 2016 to 2019 Nicolo Sokoli worked full-time at the Free Waldorf School Wetterau as a music teacher for the middle and upper grades. Since the 2019/20 school year he has been employed as an upper level teacher for music at the Free Waldorf School in Marburg. In this role he also directs the high school choir.
CD
- The Klais organ of the Liebfrauenkirche Oberursel (1999)
- KlangMosaik - New compositions from the Diocese of Mainz (2007)
- Mainz Diocese Fair - joint composition of the six regional cantors of the Diocese of Mainz: Dan Zerfaß , Nicolo Sokoli, Ruben J. Sturm, Ralf Stiewe, Thomas Gabriel , Andreas Boltz (2010)
- Jan Dismas Zelenka : Missa nativitatis Domini (2011)
- Joachim JK Kunze: ORETAG (2013) - A sound creation in 12 movements for trumpet, organ and percussion
Web links
- Works by and about Nicolo Sokoli in the catalog of the German National Library
- Nicolo Sokoli with the Marburg Bach Choir
- Nicolo Sokoli with the Cantemus vocal ensemble
- Nicolo Sokoli at the Institute for Church Music in Mainz
- Review by Gero Schreier of the latest CD recording
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mainz diocese mass on Organo Phon. Organo Phon, accessed April 11, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sokoli, Nicolo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German church musician, conductor and organist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ruesselsheim |