Ulfert Smidt

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Ulfert Smidt in the Marktkirche Hannover

Ulfert Smidt (* 1958 ) is a German church musician , lecturer at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and a multiple award-winning organist at the Marktkirche in Hanover .

Life

Ulfert Smidt grew up in the Hanseatic City of Bremen and received organ lessons there from the age of eleven . He studied church music with Ulrich Bremsteller , professor of Protestant church music at the Hanover University of Music and Theater, and passed his A-exam there in 1985 . Funded by a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation "his way to Amsterdam led to Piet Kee and Ewald Kooiman and thus to the most important organs in the Netherlands ". Michael Radulescu and Harald Vogel also influenced Smidt's organ playing.

After Ulfert Smidt initially worked as a church musician and organ auditor in Holzminden and Bremen, he has been the organist of the Marktkirche in Hanover since 1996. He is the artistic director of the International Organ Concerts series listed there . Numerous concerts by Smidt have been released as CDs , including on the three organs of the Marktkirche Hannover, the Italian organ , the organ for the ensembles of the choirs and the great organ. In 2012, a joint production of Christmas carols with Ulfert Smidt on the organ, the boys' choir Hanover under the direction of Jörg Breiding and Sky du Mont as speaker was created in the church of the Stephansstift in Hanover under the title Gloria in excelsis Deo .

Smidt is a lecturer at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media.

Productions and awards (selection)

Ulfert Smidt at the large organ of the Marktkirche , here during a service with Wolfgang Puschmann

Ulfert Smidt's work is documented on numerous CDs, including the entire organ works by Johannes Brahms , North German organ music and transcriptions of works by César Franck . Smidt's stylistic spectrum also includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Frank Martin and Olivier Messiaen . Smidt's recordings received renowned awards such as the German Record Critics' Prize and the ECHO Klassik .

Recordings

Smidt's published recordings include:

  • Concertante music for oboe and organ, 1994;
  • North German organ music from three centuries (German Record Critics' Prize 2000);
  • Johannes Brahms, The Complete Organ Works, double CD, together with Brahms, Spiritual Choral Works, North German Figural Choir ( ECHO Klassik Prize 1999);
  • Frank Martin, Passacaille, together with Frank Martin, Chorwerke, Norddeutscher Figuralchor ( German Record Critics' Prize 1996);
  • César Franck / Jean Langlais, organ transcriptions, St. Martin, Memmingen, 2007;
  • Recorder and Italian organ; 2009
  • Cécile Chaminade and René Vierne: Works for two sopranos and choir organ, 2009;
  • The new Goll organ : works by Schildt, Bach and Vierne, May 2009

Fonts (selection)

  • A lot of wind around an organ. In: Insa Becker-Wook, Theodor Bohlen, Oda-Gebbine Holze-Stäblein, Joachim Stever (ed.): Marktkirche 1998. A look back at the farewell to city superintendent Hans Werner Dannowski. Ed .: Ev.-luth. Marktkirchengemeinde and Ev.-luth. Stadtkirchenverband Hannover, Hannover: Department for public relations in the Ev.-luth. City Church Association Hanover, 1998, p. 96

Web links

Commons : Ulfert Smidt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Ulfert Smidt: VITA , accessed on October 14, 2013
  2. ↑ Bremsteller, Ulrich , kirchenmusik-in-hannover.de , accessed on October 14, 2013
  3. ↑ Stefan Arndt: CD Tips: Music “made in Hanover” , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , December 12, 2012
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g portraits Smidt / Straube, kirche-hannover.de ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Smidt, Ulfert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1958