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The German choral conductor, organist and church musician, Ulrich Stötzel, first studied church music at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (University of Music and Performing Art) in Frankfurt am Main, where he successfully took his state examination as church musician. Postgraduate master-classes with Professor Edgar Krapp and Professor Helmuth Rilling rounded off his training, culminating in the concert exam for organ and the choir director’s diploma.
Ulrich Stötzel's particular interest in the Baroque doctrine of figures and affects soon brought him together with outstanding interpreters of ‘ancient music’. Organ concerts have taken him throughout Germany, to neighbouring European countries and to the USA. Even during his time at university, he was already developing the wide-ranging, extensive work of the Bach-Chor Siegen. Regular radio and CD productions, as well as appearances at international music festivals in Europe, featuring works from nearly all stylistic eras, have enabled him to make a name for himself in professional circles and with broad sections of the general public.
Ulrich Stötzel experienced a personal, high point of honor when his ensemble was regularly called upon to substitute for the Thomanerchor Leipzig in Leipzig’s “Bach Church” of St. Thomas. In addition, he has an ongoing collaboration with the Hannoversche Hofkapelle (Hanoverian Court Orchestra) and the Kölner Kammerorchester, with which he frequently plays concerts at the Cologne Philharmonic in the “Das Meisterwerk” series. |
