Christoph Schönfelder is also committed to supporting young talent: in February 2025, he will join Prof. Thomas Lennartz, Konstantin Reymeier, Monica Melcova and Claus Fischer as a jury member for the Leipzig University of Music and Theatre's organ improvisation competition.

To mark the 274th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach's death, cathedral organist Christoph Schönfelder will present works by Bach on the choir organ in the cathedral in St. Gallen on July 28, 2024 at 5:30 pm, along with works by Olivier Messiaen and Jean Guillou on the main organ.

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!

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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.