Martin Lutz

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Martin Lutz
Evangelisches Kirchenmusikalisches Institut Heidelberg
Occupations
  • Choral conductor
  • Academic teacher
Organizations
AwardsGoethe-Plakette des Landes Hessen

Martin Lutz (born 19 May 1950) is a German musicologist, conductor and harpsichordist. He was the musical director of the concert choir Schiersteiner Kantorei in Wiesbaden from 1972 to 2017, and founded the biennial festival Wiesbadener Bachwochen in 1975.

Biography

Lutz studied church music and musicology at the

Evangelisches Kirchenmusikalisches Institut Heidelberg, and art history and ancient history at the University of Mainz.[1][2]

He has been active since 1972 as a cantor of the

Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt. Since 2003 he is teaching again at the University of Mainz as an oratorio and early music specialist. He was appointed as a professor in 2009.[2]

He has performed as a harpsichordist, organist and conductor in France, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Austria, Poland, Portugal, China, Switzerland and the Netherlands. He is also a member of the baroque ensemble Parnassi Musici.[2]

On 8 May 1995, 50 years after the end of World War II, he conducted a performance of Britten's

Kurhaus Wiesbaden,[1] with choirs from countries who were opponents during the war, the Swindon Choral Society from Swindon, UK, the Macon Civic Chorale from Macon, Georgia, the Schiersteiner Kantorei and the Chor von St. Bonifatius, prepared by Gabriel Dessauer
.

He recorded Bach's St Matthew Passion and St John Passion with the Schiersteiner Kantorei and Christoph Prégardien as the Evangelist, and Bach cantatas for solo alto with Andreas Scholl.[6]

Since 2004, he is part of a project to perform all

Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt.[1][7][8]

For his artistic work, he was awarded the Public Service Medal of the City of Wiesbaden Silver (1987) and in Gold (1997), the Culture Prize of the City of Wiesbaden (1990, together with the Schiersteiner Kantorei) and the Goethe-Plakette des Landes Hessen (Goethe Medal of the State of Hesse) in 2007.[1]

References

  1. ^
    Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst. 11 December 2007. Retrieved 29 March 2012.[permanent dead link
    ]
  2. ^ a b c "Martin Lutz (Conductor, Harpsichord, Organ)". bach-cantatas.com. 2009. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  3. ^ NZ: neue Zeitschrift für Musik. Schott Music. 1987. p. 70. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  4. ^ Hamel, Fred (1985). Musica. Bärenreiter-Verlag. p. 427. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  5. ^ "Interessante Raritäten ausgegraben / Vespermusik Konzert in der Christophoruskirche". Allgemeine Zeitung. 28 June 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2012.
  6. ^ "Martin Lutz & Schiersteiner Kantorei / Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works". bach-cantatas.com. 2005. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  7. ^ "Bach-Vespern Wiesbaden Frankfurt" (in German). bach-wiesbaden.de. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
  8. ^ "Bach Festivals & Cantata Series / Wiesbaden-Frankfurt Bach-Vespern". bach-cantatas.com. 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2012.

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