Organ music by candlelight in the Church of St. Luzi, Johannes Ebenbauer, Vienna

Description

1991 to 2005 Cathedral Kapellmeister at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna with artistic and organizational leadership of all ensembles at the cathedral, in the liturgy and in concerts: choir, vocal ensemble, cathedral choir, soloist ensembles, choral schola, cathedral orchestra, organ services – including collaboration with ORF radio and television – from 1998 permanently live on Radio Klassik Stephansdom.

Since 2010 organist at the Viennese Franciscan Church with the annual organ concert cycle “Quintessenz” on the Wöckherl organ from 1642 – curator of this first-class historic organ.

2012 habilitation in organ and improvisation, 2013 appointment as university professor for organ and improvisation at the mdw succeeding Peter Planyavsky.
From 2020 head of the Institute for Organ, Organ Research and Church Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

Invitations to festivals at home and abroad as organist and improviser as well as conductor – often with the ensembles he founded Baroque Orchestra J.J. Fux, Cappella Albertina and Vocalconsort, as well as in various ensemble formations – frequently with Siegfried Koch (baroque trumpet & cornetto) and Georg Gratzer (reed instruments).

Concert tours recently took him, for example, to the Tchaikovsky Philharmonic in Moscow, the Philharmonic Bratislava, to Ukraine (Odessa Opera House), Switzerland (Baden/Zurich, Rheinau Monastery Church), Israel (Jerusalem), Lithuania (Klaipeda and Vilnius), Bulgaria, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Andorra, as well as to many important organs in Germany and Austria – e.g. to the Silbermann organs in the cathedral in Freiberg, to the Holzhey organ in Ravensburg/Weissenau or to the Bruckner organ in the St. Florian Monastery in Upper Austria, to the Kreuzkirche in Dresden and to the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig.
Invitations to orchestral conducting, for example to Sofia and Varna (BGR) with works by Beethoven, Mozart, Paganini, Bach, Händel, and others.

Highlights

• High-caliber organ music by candlelight
• Performance by Johannes Ebenbauer
• Atmospheric setting in the Church of St. Luzi

General Information

The concert takes place in the Church of St. Luzi in Chur and offers an hour of organ music in a special atmosphere. Johannes Ebenbauer, an experienced organist and professor, presents his skills in this atmospheric setting.

Location

Alte Schanfiggerstrasse 7, 7000 Chur, Schweiz

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