Martin Lücker

Martin Lücker

At the organ of the Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt, December 2008
Born (1953-10-11) 11 October 1953
Preußisch Oldendorf, Germany
Occupation
  • Classical organist
  • Professor
Organization
Prospect of he organ, 1990

Martin Lücker (born 11 October 1953) is a German classical organist, and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main.

Career

Born in Preußisch Oldendorf, Lücker studied organ in Hannover[1] and in Vienna with Anton Heiller,[2] and conducting in Detmold with Martin Stephani.[3] He first worked there at the Landestheater Detmold as repetiteur, then as assistant of the choir director at the Oper Frankfurt.[1]

From 1983, he has been organist of the main Protestant church of Frankfurt, the Katharinenkirche.[1][4] He has been professor of Künstlerisches Orgelspiel und Methodik/Didaktik des Orgelunterrichtes (concert organ playing and didactic of teaching organ playing) at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main from 1998.[1] From August 2011, he has also been the conductor of the chamber choir Figuralchor Frankfurt.[1][3][5]

At the Katharinenkirche, he established two regular concert series. In "30 Minuten Orgelmusik" (30 minutes of organ music“, he plays every Monday and Thursday at 4:30 pm a free concert of 30 minutes, playing the 3000th concert in 2013.[1][6] In "Musik in Sankt Katharinen" (Music in Saint Catharine's), he offers two organ concerts a months, played by himself and guests, and choral music with the Kantorei St. Katharinen.[1]

In 2012, he played a concert at the historic Stumm organ of the Rheingauer Dom with a program that Albert Schweitzer had performed in Frankfurt in 1928 on a similar instrument that was destroyed.[7] He celebrated his 30th anniversary at the Katharinenkirche with a concert.[8]

Selected recordings

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Holze, Guido (5 April 2014). "Ein Seiteneinsteiger mit Sinn für Kontinuität". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  2. ↑ "Martin Lücker (Organ)". bach-cantatas.com. 2007. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Künstlerische Leitung" (in German). Figuralchor Frankfurt. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  4. ↑ "Martin Lücker". Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
  5. ↑ "Man trifft sich immer zweimal". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 30 December 2011. p. 48.
  6. ↑ "Frankfurter Organist Martin Lücker gibt 3000. kostenloses Konzert". Frankfurter Neue Presse (in German). 30 June 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  7. ↑ "Historisches Orgelkonzert im Rheingauer Dom /Ganz nah am Original: Albert Schweitzers Konzert aus dem Jahr 1928 in Geisenheim". Rheingau Echo (in German). 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
  8. ↑ ""Die Orgel ist ein einsames Geschäft" / Musik als Gegenpol zum Einkaufstrubel / Martin Lücker feiert sein Dienstjubiläum in der Katharinenkirche mit einem Konzert". Ev. Sonntagszeitung (in German). 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2014.

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