Roland Maria Stangier

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Roland Maria Stangier (* 1957 ) is a German organist and university professor .

Stangier studied with Zsolt Gárdonyi in Würzburg and Daniel Roth in Paris. He was a scholarship holder of the Berlin Allied "Airlift Memorial Fund Scholarship" (Bourse du mémorial du pont aérien) and thus the first organist to whom the scholarship was awarded. During this time he devoted himself to studies in Paris and Strasbourg with Daniel Roth and André Fleury.

After working as a cantor in Schopfheim (1982/83) and Berlin (1983–91), he was cantor and organist at the main church St. Petri in Hamburg from 1991 to 1995 as the successor to Ernst-Ulrich von Kameke and director of the Hamburg Bach Choir. After teaching at the University of the Arts in Bremen and at the Archbishopric Church Music School in Berlin, he was appointed professor for organ and organ improvisation at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen in 1994 . From 1998 to 2000, Stangier was also the main organist of the Reformed City Church in Solothurn (CH). The organist is the initiator of the international improvisation competition "Maurice Duruflé" Hamburg. From 2003 to 2017 Stangier was curator of the Kuhn organ at the Philharmonie Essen . Since 2009 he has been one of the organ curators of the Philharmonie Mercatorhalle Duisburg and since 2010 titular organist of the Kreuzeskirche in Essen . As part of his national and international concert activities, Stangier was Artist in Residence in Grace Church Georgetown, Washington DC in 2018.

Roland Maria Stangier has recorded numerous CDs. In addition to numerous organ improvisations (including Hanns Dieter Hüsch reads Psalms - I stand under God's protection (1996), times of the day and the seasons. Improvisations on folk and children's songs ) and various recordings, including by Johannes Brahms : Ein deutsches Requiem (Mitra 1998) and Die Knauf organ in the cath. Parish church St. Philippus and Jakobus zu Geisa ( Ambiente music production 2002) Stangier was entrusted with the first solo album of the English Town Hall Organ Philharmonic Duisburg .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dorothea Schröder: Gloria in excelsis Deo. A history of the organs in the main church St. Petri, Hamburg . Wachholtz, Neumünster 2006, ISBN 3-529-02848-7 , p. 100.
  2. ↑ full display. Retrieved April 28, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Organ Commission Duisburger Philharmoniker Season 2018/2019. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ https://www.forum-kreuzeskirche.de/titularorganist
  5. ↑ 1041 Wisconsin Avenue NW Washington 20007 See map: Google Maps: Fourth Concert of Grace Church Bach Festival on July 13. Accessed April 28, 2019 (American English).

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personal data
SURNAME Stangier, Roland Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1957