Martin Lücker


Martin Lücker is a German classical organist, and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main.
WWW martinluecker.com

Career

Born in Preußisch Oldendorf, Lücker studied organ in Hannover and in Vienna with Anton Heiller, and conducting in Detmold with Martin Stephani. He first worked there at the Landestheater Detmold as repetiteur, then as assistant of the choir director at the Oper Frankfurt.
Since 1983, he has been organist of the main Protestant church of Frankfurt, the Katharinenkirche. He has been professor of Künstlerisches Orgelspiel und Methodik/Didaktik des Orgelunterrichtes at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main since 1998. From August 2011 to 2016, he was also the conductor of the Figuralchor Frankfurt.
At the Katharinenkirche, he established two regular concert series. In "30 Minuten Orgelmusik", he plays two organ concerts a month, played by himself and guests, and choral music with the Kantorei St. Katharinen.
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 had been destroyed. He celebrated his 30th anniversary at the Katharinenkirche with a concert.

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