Winfried Lichtscheidel

Winfried Lichtscheidel (born March 25, 1980 in Friedrichshafen ) is a German organist and Catholic church musician .

education

Winfried Lichtscheidel received organ lessons from Siegmar Junker, Veronika Weber and Thiemo Janssen while at school . After graduation and subsequent community service in the cath. Parish St. Canisius in Friedrichshafen , he studied from 2000 to 2010 Catholic church music and organ as an artistic major at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart (u. A. Organ with Bernhard Haas and Ludger Lohmann , organ improvisation with Willibald Bezler and Hans Martin Corrinth , conducting with Dieter Kurz ). In 2008 he graduated with the master's examination (A-examination) for church music and in 2010 - after successful postgraduate studies in Ludger Lohmann's soloist class - with the concert exam.

activity

Since 2010 Winfried Lichtscheidel has been a church musician at St. Martinus and Ludgerus in Sendenhorst and leader of the concert series "Sendenhorster Orgelherbst at the Woehl Organ". As an organist, Winfried Lichtscheidel has given concerts at festivals in several European countries. He is particularly interested in the organs of the Marburg organ builder Gerald Woehl . He wrote his diploma thesis on aspects of the conception of Gerald Woehl's organs . He recorded several CDs on the Woehl organ in St. Martin in Sendenhorst, including the complete recording of Ch.-M.'s 10 organ symphonies, which was awarded the German Record Critics Prize. Widor (Ambiente Audio).

Prizes and awards

• Artist Prize of the City of Friedrichshafen
• 1st prize at the federal competition Jugend musiziert in the subject organ and prize of the " New Bach Society "
• 1st prize at the European organ competition in Ljubljana
• Winner of the international organ competition "Domberg-Prediger" in Erfurt and the "Max Reger Special Prize"
• 1st prize at the international organ competition "Olivier Messiaen and Max Reger" in Graz
• 1st prize at the international organ competition in Landsberg am Lech
• Prize winner at the International Bach Competition in Wiesbaden
• “ Prize of the German Record Critics ” - Quarterly List 2018

Discography

• Franz Liszt : Fantasy and Fugue on “Ad nos, ad salutarem undam” and Sonata in B minor (organ version by B. Haas), Marcel Dupré : 2nd Symphony. Winfried Lichtscheidel at the Woehl organ in St. Martin, Sendenhorst. Ambience audio.
• Organs in Münsterland Vol. 1. Winfried and Agata Lichtscheidel on the Woehl organ for St. Martin Sendenhorst and Stockmann organ for St. Ludgerus Albersloh (including transcription of the 8th Symphony by Antonín Dvořák for two players by Agata Lichtscheidel). Ambience audio.
• Charles-Marie Widor : Complete Organ Symphonies. (6 CDs) Ambiente Audio.
• Symphonic soundscapes - homage to Gerald Woehl . (Double CD) (including New World Symphony by A. Dvořák, Les Préludes by F. Liszt, Symphonie Passion by M. Dupré, Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue op. 127 by M. Reger ). Ambience audio.

Web links

• Winfried Lichtscheidel on the website of the Catholic parish of St. Martinus and Ludgerus Sendenhorst