THE ORGAN IS HIS PASSION
Innovative and inspiring: two attributes that make Christoph Schönfelder one of the most aspiring and interesting organists of his generation. Born in Landshut in 1992, his promising musical career started with the Regensburger Domspatzen. The multiple prize-winner studied organ, Catholic church music and piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, where he now teaches in addition to his many musical activities.
UPCOMING
EVENTS
Thursday, 9 May 2024
20.00 h, St. Gallen Cathedral
with Capella Choralis
Musical Direction: Dr. Michael Wersin
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Friday, 10 May 2024
20.00 h, St. Gallen Cathedral
Music and Words
Organ improvisations with P. Theo Flury OSB
Texts: Erich Guntli
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Sunday, 28 July 2024
17.30 h, Cathedral St. Gallen
Final concert of the International organ concert series in St. Gallen
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Pictures & Videos
Artist portraits, videos and download area
News
Marcel Dupré's haunting composition " Le chemin de la croix " from 1932, which describes the 14 stations of the cross of Jesus' Passion, will be performed at this year's Passion Concert on 10 March 2024 at 16.30 at St. Gallen Cathedral. Cathedral organist Christoph Schönfelder will interpret this very demanding and highly complex organ work, while cathedral priest Beat Grögli will read the complex texts – which he revised himself - by the French writer Paul Claudel, who described the 14 stations of Christ's Passion in poetic form.
Christoph Schönfelder has already taken on his position as the new cathedral organist of St. Gallen, and now he will present himself there for the first time in a concert on 24 September at 5:30 pm. You can enjoy a program with works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Olivier Messiaen and Max Reger. We wish you an inspiring concert experience!
The succession of the retiring St. Gallen Cathedral organist Willibald Guggenmos has been settled. The 30-year-old Christoph Schönfelder from Munich will follow in his footsteps as of August 1, 2023. The newly elected cathedral organist Christoph Schönfelder convinced the search committee not only musically because of his technical and artistic abilities and talent for improvisation, but also because of his theological and liturgical knowledge and as a person.
Together with Florin Paul, principal violinist of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester Hamburg and Paganini prizewinner, Christoph Schönfelder recorded the composition "Prière" for viola/English horn and organ byHarald Feller, published in 2021.
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