Martin Schmeding of the European Organ Academy at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig teaches students in the Department of Organ on our Fisk Organ. Free and open to the public.
ABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST
“Breathtakingly virtuosic and full of genuine life” (The Organ/GB). “Martin Schmeding’s playing is superlatively good – good enough to allow you to forget there is someone working the instrument” (MusicWeb International)
As Professor for Organ and Artistic Director of the European Organ Academy at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, MARTIN SCHMEDING holds one of the most prestigious posts in the organists' world. In addition, he is Guest Professor at the Royal Conservatoire of Music Birmingham and since 2024 Professor of Organ at the Royal College of Music London.
As a student, Schmeding won many prizes in major international competitions. For his numerous CD recordings, among them the complete works of Max Reger, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Johannes Brahms, he was awarded the European music prize ECHO Classic as “Soloist of the Year” (2010) and the Prize of the German Record Critics 2009, 2017 and 2020. In 2017 he was named “Professor of the Year” out of 2500 nominated German university teachers.
Born in 1975 in Minden, Westphalia, Schmeding studied in Hanover, Amsterdam and Dusseldorf. Through his teachers Ulrich Bremsteller, Lajos Rovatkay, Dr. Hans van Nieuwkoop, Jacques van Oortmerssen and Jean Boyer he is part of the important German organ tradition of Karl Straube, Guenther Ramin and Helmut Walcha, as well as of the French tradition and the Dutch historical organ movement.
Between 1999 and 2004, Schmeding filled two of the most important posts for church musicians in Germany. In 1999, he was appointed Music Director at the Neander Church in Dusseldorf. As titular organist at the Kreuzkirche in Dresden, a place with a more than 700-year-old tradition of church music, Schmeding worked from 2002 until 2004. After teaching in Hannover, Leipzig, Weimar, and Dresden, he worked as organ professor at the University of Music in Freiburg from 2004-2015 as the successor of Prof. Zsigmond Szathmáry, where he was also the chair of the church-music and organ department.
Schmeding is an active recitalist in important venues and in international festivals, a jury member for international competitions (Bach-Wettbewerb Leipzig, Bach competition Boston, Pachelbel Competition Nuremberg, Silbermann Competition Freiberg, International Organ Competition St Albans) and publisher of articles and music editions to complete his musical profile.
In 2021 he finished his PhD in musicology with a dissertation on Wolfgang Rihm’s early and organ works (summa cum laude).
ABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST
“Breathtakingly virtuosic and full of genuine life” (The Organ/GB). “Martin Schmeding’s playing is superlatively good – good enough to allow you to forget there is someone working the instrument” (MusicWeb International)
As Professor for Organ and Artistic Director of the European Organ Academy at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, MARTIN SCHMEDING holds one of the most prestigious posts in the organists' world. In addition, he is Guest Professor at the Royal Conservatoire of Music Birmingham and since 2024 Professor of Organ at the Royal College of Music London.
As a student, Schmeding won many prizes in major international competitions. For his numerous CD recordings, among them the complete works of Max Reger, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Johannes Brahms, he was awarded the European music prize ECHO Classic as “Soloist of the Year” (2010) and the Prize of the German Record Critics 2009, 2017 and 2020. In 2017 he was named “Professor of the Year” out of 2500 nominated German university teachers.
Born in 1975 in Minden, Westphalia, Schmeding studied in Hanover, Amsterdam and Dusseldorf. Through his teachers Ulrich Bremsteller, Lajos Rovatkay, Dr. Hans van Nieuwkoop, Jacques van Oortmerssen and Jean Boyer he is part of the important German organ tradition of Karl Straube, Guenther Ramin and Helmut Walcha, as well as of the French tradition and the Dutch historical organ movement.
Between 1999 and 2004, Schmeding filled two of the most important posts for church musicians in Germany. In 1999, he was appointed Music Director at the Neander Church in Dusseldorf. As titular organist at the Kreuzkirche in Dresden, a place with a more than 700-year-old tradition of church music, Schmeding worked from 2002 until 2004. After teaching in Hannover, Leipzig, Weimar, and Dresden, he worked as organ professor at the University of Music in Freiburg from 2004-2015 as the successor of Prof. Zsigmond Szathmáry, where he was also the chair of the church-music and organ department.
Schmeding is an active recitalist in important venues and in international festivals, a jury member for international competitions (Bach-Wettbewerb Leipzig, Bach competition Boston, Pachelbel Competition Nuremberg, Silbermann Competition Freiberg, International Organ Competition St Albans) and publisher of articles and music editions to complete his musical profile.
In 2021 he finished his PhD in musicology with a dissertation on Wolfgang Rihm’s early and organ works (summa cum laude).
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