Franz Surges


Franz Surges was a German composer and musician.

Education

Surges was born in Remagen, Germany. He studied at the Episcopal School for Church Music, Aachen, and at the Cologne Conservatoire, Department Aachen.
He took the following exams:
  • Cantor-exam
  • Diploma in Music Pedagogy
  • Diploma of the Artistic final-exam, main subject organ
  • Diploma in Music Pedagogy
He took further lessons in composition with Tilo Medek.
He completed international masterclasses resp. music academies, e.g. by Jean Guillou, Piet Kee, Guy Bovet, Harald Vogel, Monserrat Torrent.

Position and awards

From 1981 Franz Surges was a church musician at St. Antony, Eschweiler-Roehe, composer, choir director and music teacher, among others, for church-musical.
Franz Surges obtained a number of prizes and awards, including:
  • First prize composition contest "in Furtherance of Contemporaneous Music Maintenance in Religious Services", Schwäbisch Gmuend within the framework of the festival "European Church Music"
  • First Prize composition contest "Mayrhofer-Prize", Passau, Germany, 2002
  • First Prize composition contest in the town of Siegburg, 2006

    Oeuvre

Surges composed works in various genres: choral, orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal.

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