Thomas Schmidt (church musician)

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Thomas Schmidt (born November 10, 1960 in Waldbröl ) is a German church musician .

Life

Schmidt began his musical training on the piano at the age of eight, followed in 1974 by instruction in organ playing . During his school days he took part in choir conducting courses of the Christian Choir Association and in 1978 passed the D examination as an organist. After graduating from high school at Hollenberg-Gymnasium in Waldbröl and two years of community service in a workshop for the disabled in Wiehl , he studied Protestant church music at the State University for Music and Dance in Cologne , studying choir conducting with Henning Frederichs and organ with Peter Dicke and Wolfgang Stockmeier , composition with Günter Fork . In 1985 he passed the A-exam with distinction in liturgical organ playing . From 1987 he studied Kapellmeister at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin with Hans-Martin Rabenstein and Robert Wolf. He successfully completed this course in 1991. Since 1982 he has worked as an organist in the parish of Cologne-Ehrenfeld and gives many concerts. From 1987 to 1992 he worked as a cantor at the Dankeskirche in Berlin-Wedding . In 1993 he was appointed cantor at the Marktkirche in Neuwied am Rhein and as district cantor of the Wied church district . He maintains good cooperation there with his Neuwied colleague Cantor Bernd Kämpf . From 1997 to 1999 he taught conducting at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne. In the winter semester of 2009 he took on a teaching position for the subject “hymnology and community singing”, also at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. With the advent of the Internet, Schmidt initiated a mailing list ( church music list ) for church musicians. For his services to church music, he was appointed church music director in 2011 . In 2015 he took over the management of the Protestant Church Music course at the Cologne University of Music and Dance . In 2017 he performed on the largest church organ (143 stops) in Chicago in the Fourth Presbyterian Church . In 2019 he was awarded the Neuwied Casino Society's Citizens Prize. In January 2019 he performed with the Neuwieder Konzertchor on a joint project at Carnegie Hall in New York , in which the work Symphonic Adiemus by Karl Jenkins was performed. He is a member of the International Working Group on Hymnology (IAH) .

Choirs and ensembles

  • Choir of the market church
  • New concert choir
  • Cappella Vocale Neuwied
  • Gospel Choir Neuwied
  • Youth choir "Vivace"
  • Children's choir "Crescendo"

Audio documents

  • “Christ is risen”; Improvisation on the Kleuker organ in the Marktkirche in Neuwied ( YouTube )
  • Organ works by Beate Leibe (YouTube)

Fonts

  • Thomas Schmidt: Singing as an experience of yourself and God . in: Handbook of Congregation & Presbytery: Spirituality. Media Association of Evgl. Church in the Rhineland gGmbH.
  • Thomas Schmidt and Mechthild Brand: Nothing works here without music - discovering and cultivating the potential of church music . in: Subject: Divine service, edition 23/2005, published by the Divine Service Office of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland
  • Thomas Schmidt u. Martin Evang: Liturgical Chants of the Congregation - Suggestions for shaping continuity and change . Subject: Divine service, edition 30/2009, published by the divine service office of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland
  • Thomas Schmidt: Liturgical chants . in: Workbook "s! ngen - every voice counts", published by the Evangelical Church in Rhineland 2011
  • Thomas Schmidt (et al.): John Bell: Another way of church singing . in: work book "s! ngen - every voice counts". Published by the Evangelical Church in Rhineland 2011
  • Thomas Schmidt: "Faith, Hope, Love" instead of "Unity and Law and Freedom" - Writing sacred lyrics to familiar melodies - is that okay? . in: Württembergische Blätter für Kirchenmusik 3/2012. Editor: Evangelical Church Music in Württemberg eV
  • Thomas Schmidt: What makes me sing is what is in heaven - singing as a source of spirituality . in: More than a thousand words ... On the relationship between word and music in the preaching event. Possibly Academy in the Rhineland 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the Cologne University of Music and Dance , accessed on October 27, 2009
  2. ↑ YouTube ; accessed on August 21, 2020
  3. ↑ Course catalog winter semester 2009/2010
  4. ↑ www.ekir.de , accessed on January 27, 2011
  5. ↑ Degree in Protestant Church Music ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 7, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hfmt-koeln.de
  6. ↑ www.fourthchurch.org ; accessed on March 4, 2019
  7. ↑ www.chicagoago.com , accessed March 4, 209
  8. ↑ Rheinzeitung from January 15, 2019
  9. ↑ www.marktkirche.de , accessed on March 4, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldbröl