Stuttgart Organ Academy

Foto: Oliver Röckle

8. Stuttgart Organ Academy

24.–27. April 2025
Artist in Residence: Andrea Marcon

We are delighted to invite you to the Stuttgart Organ Academy 2025! In the week after Easter, we will come together for this exceptional organ festival. Our teachers and students look forward to meeting you.

In courses and lectures, each teacher from our Institute for Organ and Historical Keyboard Instruments teaches a specific topic. Together it adds up to a broad and detailed musical landscape. The different artistic personalities, complementary skills and wide-ranging teaching methods reflect the diversity of our educational programme. The organ is presented here in all its facets – from early music to improvisation, via the avant-garde and the music of the great romantic composers – along with the harpsichord, historical pianos, basso continuo, liturgical practice and even baroque ensemble conducting, with a concert by the Accademia degli Affetti, representing our ‘Maestro al Cembalo’ course. In addition to this rich teaching programme, you will be able to take advantage of our numerous organs, which will allow you to experience almost the entire extensive repertoire under optimal study conditions.

In addition, every morning in the ‘plenum’ you will be able to benefit from the renowned expertise of our artist-in-residence Andrea Marcon, who is providing us with his rare expertise. His experience as a conductor with the most important baroque and symphony orchestras in the world is reflected in his understanding of baroque music and his lively and always inspiring teaching. Finally, concerts with a wide-ranging repertoire will round off these eventful and emotional days.

We are thrilled to welcome you to this grand festival in Stuttgart.

Prof. Dr. Vincent Bernhardt
Head of the Institute for Organ, Harpsichord and Historical Keyboard Instruments

Schedule

Participation and Application

Plenum Prof. Andrea Marcon

Influences of Italian music in German music of the 17th and 18th centuries

Works by Italian baroque composers. German or Austrian composers who were influenced by Italian music (e.g. Georg Muffat, Johann Kaspar Kerll, Johann Jakob Froberger, Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Sebastian Bach ...). Participants may select and prepare adequate repertoire following this criteria.

The internationally renowned conductor, harpsichordist and organist Andrea Marcon was born in Treviso (Italy) in 1963. At a very young age he began his musical studies which he then continued in Venice and Basel. He has won and been awarded in prestigious national and international competitions (Rome, Bruges, Innsbruck, Bologna). In the 80s and 90s he made numerous study trips to discover the most important historical European organs, carrying out an intense concert activity on organs and harpsichords. He is the creator of the “Città di Treviso” International Organ Festival (1988) and of the ECHO network (European Cities Historic Organs, 1997). In 1982 he was among the founders and inspirer of the “Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca”, one of the first Italian groups specialized in early music. In 1997 he founded Venice Baroque Orchestra, leading it to perform regularly in the most prestigious halls and festivals in Europe, the United States, Canada and Asia. Since 2009 he has also been the artistic and musical director of La Cetra Barockorchester Basel with which he has carried out an intense activity in the operatic field. He also conducts important opera productions in the theaters of Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Madrid, Basel, Oviedo, Aix en Provence, New York, Venice, Moscow... As a guest conductor he is regularly invited by prestigious orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Bayerische Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester, the Münchner Philharmoniker, the symphony orchestras of the German national radio stations WDR, SWR, BR. HR, Freiburger Barockorchester, Concerto Köln, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla and many other. From 2012 to 2020 he was artistic director of the City of Granada Orchestra, by unanimous will of the orchestra's musicians. Marcon has recorded more than 75 CDs. He holds a class in harpsichord, organ, performance practices and ensemble music at the Basel Academy - Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He is also regularly invited to the juries of the most prestigious international organ and harpsichord competitions.

Courses

Prof. Dr. Vincent Bernhardt

Organ literature course

From the court to the church
Repertoire:
French music from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Works by Titelouze, Louis und François Couperin, Nivers, Raison, Boyvin, Lebègue, Grigny, d'Anglebert, Marchand, Du Mage, Gaspard und Michel Corrette, Guilain, Clérambault, Dandrieu, Daquin, Balbastre a.o.

Vincent Bernhardt has taught organ at the HMDK Stuttgart since the winter semester 2022-23. Combining instrumental mastery with in-depth musicological research, he is a complete musician: an internationally renowned harpsichordist and organist, doctor in musicology, and ensemble director, while at the same time pedagogue and researcher. As a musicologist, he specializes in the interpretation of early 18th century instrumental music, particularly the work of Vivaldi.

Prof. Jürgen Essl

Organ literature and improvisation course

Mendelssohn, Brahms and romantic improvisation
Repertoire:
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Complete organ works
Johannes Brahms: Complete organ works Improvisation

Jürgen Essl – Professor of Organ at the HMDK since 2003, previously Professor in Lübeck and Kantor in Sigmaringen. He teaches a mixed class for repertoire and improvisation. He presents concerts and masterclasses internationally but also as a composer. His recordings from Mexico Cathedral have been internationally awarded, such as “CD of the year” by Klassik Heute. In 2003 he received the Kompositionspreis Kirchenmusik Baden-Württemberg.

Prof. Helmut Deutsch

Organ literature course

Reubke and Liszt
Repertoire:
Julius Reubke: Organ Sonata in C minor „Der 94. Psalm“
Franz Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H, Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen,
Zagen, as well as smaller original works

Helmut Deutsch, Professor of Organ at the HMDK Stuttgart, previously of the HfM in Freiburg. Liszt Prize Budapest; numerous concert tours. Juror at international Organ competitions, lecturer at interpretation courses. CD recordings, "Diapason d'or" for Liszt: Organ works. Author of organ transcriptions (Bärenreiter, Schott). Study of different instrumental and musical genres such as opera, piano, chamber music, and symphonic music as a source of inspiration and comparison for organ music is an important focus of his teaching.

Prof. Jörg Halubek

Organ literature course

J. S. Bach, Dritter Teil der Klavierübung
Repertoire:
Praeludium pro Organo pleno BWV 552
Chorale preludes BWV 669-689
4 Duettos BWV 802-805

Jörg Halubek has been a professor of organ and harpsichord since 2012. In 2004, he won first prize at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig. In recent years he has most notably made appearances as conductor at venerable theaters and festivals, conducting more than 30 opera productions with directors such as Harry Kupfer and Calixto Bieito, including at the Komische Oper Berlin and the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music. His musical foundation remains organ playing; he is in the process of making a complete recording of Bach’s works for organ with the Berlin Classics record label.

Domorganist KMD Prof. Johannes Mayr

Improvisation couse

Dances through the centuries

Johannes Mayr worked as deanery cantor in Bad Wurzach from 1990 to 2001, and from 2001 to 2011 in Stuttgart (St. Fidelis). He has taught organ with a focus on improvisation at various music schools: since 2004 at the Tübingen University of Sacred Music; since 2009 at the HMDK Stuttgart. In 2011 he was appointed Cathedral Organist of St. Eberhard in Stuttgart. He is a prize-winner in several improvisation competitions, including 1st Prizes at the international Organ Improvisation Contests in Schwäbisch Gmünd (1989), in Montbrison/France (1991) and in Dudelange/Luxemburg (2009).

Tobias Wittmann

Improvisation course

Unverfügbarkeit – Impulses for improvisation in the moment

Tobias Wittmann teaches organ improvisation and liturgical organ playing at the HMDK Stuttgart. He is regional cantor for the Kath. Stadtdekanat Stuttgart and directs KLANGRAUM st.fidelis. A main focus of his artistic conceptions is the cooperation and deepening of music and spirituality. He has won prizes in improvisation competitions, and was a finalist in the International Improvisation Competition in Haarlem.

Arianna Radaelli

Harpsichord and basso continuo course

Bach and the influence of the Italian style in Germany in the 18th century

Repertoire:
J. S. Bach, G. F. Händel, Georg and Gottlieb Muffat, J. D. Heinichen.

Arianna Radaelli, italian harpsichordist and pianist, studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Francesco Corti and Andrea Marcon. She is a prizewinner of international competitions and performs at many early music festivals in Europe as a soloist, in her duo “Alter Ego”, as a member of ensembles (Zefiro, Café Zimmermann, Abchordis Ensemble, etc.), or as assistant director for opera productions. She has has been a lecturer of basso continuo and accompaniment at the University Mozarteum Salzburg since 2021, instructor of harpsichord and basso continuo at the HMDK Stuttgart since 2023.

Prof.in Dr. Stefania Neonato

Historical piano course

Diversity and innovation in the building schools and in the aesthetics of historical pianos 1770–1870

Repertoire:
Literature for piano 1770–1870

Born in Trento, Italy, Stefania Neonato belongs to a generation of artists busy with historical performance practices on period instruments but also interested in bridging modern piano performance tradition and current historical research. Landmarks in Neonato’s career are the encounters with Alexander Lonquich, Riccardo Zadra and Malcolm Bilson with whom she earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Historical Performance Practice at Cornell University. In 2007 she got top prize and Audience Prize at the International Fortepiano Competition “Musica Antiqua” in Bruges. From then on she is guest at some of the most important early music festivals and concert seasons in Europe and USA. Several recordings mark Stefania Neonato’s career featuring solo (Mozart, Haydn, Clementi, Beethoven) and chamber music on period pianos (Schubert, Beethoven, von Weber, Hummel). In January 2025 Beethoven Violin-Sonaten with Christine Busch was released for SWR Label.

Lectures

KMD Prof. Jörg-Hannes Hahn

Arriving in the future? The beginning of the avant-garde in 1962

Jörg-Hannes Hahn is the District Director of Music for the 4 Stuttgart Deaneries. Since 1996 he has taught organ, figured-bass, and pedagogy at the HMDK Stuttgart, where he became a professor in 2007. Invitations as soloist, visiting professor, and conductor have brought him to most of the European countries, North and South America, Israel, Russia, and the Middle East. He is artistic director of the concert-series MUSIK AM 13. with guests such as Krzysztof Penderecki and Sofia Gubaidulina. He established this series as the most sophisticated church music series within southern Germany. His performances have been heard in productions for CD, TV and radio.

KMD Thomas Haller

A theoretical view of scaling in organ building from the 12th to the 21st century

Thomas Haller (*1966) is church music director in Aalen and organ consultant of the Protestant Church in Württemberg, as well as an instructor for organ building in Freiburg, Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg. He studied church music in Hannover and Stuttgart. As a church music networker in East Württemberg, he is currently also researching 550 years of organ building in his home region.

KMD Dr. Markus Uhl

The tempo in the work of Johann Sebastian Bach

KMD Dr. Markus Uhl (*1978) studied church music, organ/organ improvisation, musicology and philosophy in Freiburg, Weimar, Heidelberg and Essen. Since 2007 he has been District Cantor of the Archdiocese of Freiburg at the Jesuit Church in Heidelberg (choirs, organ playing, education, etc.). As a lecturer, he teaches organ improvisation, Gregorian chant and other academic subjects at universities in Stuttgart, Heidelberg and Weimar. In his lessons at the HMDK Stuttgart, he combines artistic and scientific standards with his extensive practical experience as a full-time church musician, which he passes on to the students.

Prof.in Dr. Stefania Neonato

Beethoven and his 1804 Érard grand piano: context and sound worlds of the Piano Sonata Op. 53

Stefania Neonato

Organ Academy 2025 (PDF)

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Previous Organ Academies

7. Stuttgarter Orgelakademie, 14. – 18. Mai 2023

6. Stuttgarter Orgelakademie, 07. – 14. Juli 2019

So, 07.07., 17 Uhr, Orgelsammlung
Eröffnung der Orgelakademie
durch Rektorin Dr. Regula Rapp
und Orgelkonzert mit Studierenden der HMDK

18.30–20 Uhr, Foyer 3. Ebene
Vorstellung der Orgelsammlung im Rahmen eines Wandelkonzertes
mit den Dozierenden der Akademie

Mo 08.07., 9 Uhr, Orgelsammlung
9–12 Uhr, Konzertsaal
Plenum mit Prof. Daniel Roth

13.15–13.45 Uhr, Raum 3.01
Vortrag Tobias Horn: Die symphonischen Dichtungen für Orgel von Marcel Dupré

14–16 Uhr, Orgelräume
Kurse Prof. Dr. Ludger Lohmann (4.50), Prof. Jörg Halubek (3.01),
Prof. Stefanie Neonato, DMA (7.25), Tobias Wittmann (3.03)

16–18 Uhr, Orgelräume
Kurs Prof. Helmut Deutsch: 16–17 Uhr Bach Passacaglia (4.50)

17–18 Uhr, Orgelräume
Mendelssohn (3.04), Prof. Jürgen Essl (3.01), Prof. Johannes Mayr (3.03)

20 Uhr, Konzertsaal
KONZERT I: „Passacaglia“
mit Ludger Lohmann, Jürgen Essl, Tobias Wittmann und Jörg Halubek

Di, 09.07., 9 Uhr, Orgelsammlung
9–12 Uhr, Konzertsaal
Plenum mit Prof. Daniel Roth

13.15–14 Uhr, Raum 3.01
Vortrag KMD Prof. Jörg-Hannes Hahn: Der junge Bach beim alten Fritz

14–16 Uhr, Orgelräume
Kurse Prof. Dr. Ludger Lohmann (4.50), Prof. Jörg Halubek (3.01),
Prof. Stefanie Neonato, DMA (7.25), Tobias Wittmann (3.03)

16–18 Uhr, Orgelräume
Kurse Prof. Helmut Deutsch (3.04), Prof. Jürgen Essl: 16–17 Uhr Bach Passacaglia (3.01),
Prof. Johannes Mayr (3.03)

20 Uhr, Konzertsaal
KONZERT II: Jazz & Orgel
mit Soli, Chor, Ensemble, Johannes Mayr, Kit Downes

Mi 10.07., 9 Uhr, Orgelsammlung
9–12 Uhr, Konzertsaal
Plenum mit Prof. Daniel Roth

13.15–14 Uhr, Raum 3.01
Vortrag Dr. Markus Uhl: Liturgie-musikalisches Timing

14–16 Uhr, Orgelräume
Kurse Prof. Dr. Ludger Lohmann (4.50), Prof. Jörg Halubek: 14–15 Uhr Bach Passacaglia (3.01),
Prof. Stefanie Neonato, DMA (7.25), Kit Downes (3.03)

16–18 Uhr, Orgelräume
Kurse Prof. Helmut Deutsch (4.50), Kit Downes (3.03), Prof. Johannes Mayr (3.03)

20 Uhr, Konzertsaal
KONZERT III: Prof. Daniel Roth, Helmut Deutsch

Do, 11.07., 9 Uhr, Orgelsammlung
9–12 Uhr, Konzertsaal
Plenum mit Prof. Daniel Roth

13.15–13.45 Uhr, Raum 3.01
Vortrag Johannes Fiedler: Über Freiheit und Fantasie: Mozart zwischen den Stühlen

14–16 Uhr, Orgelräume
Kurse Prof. Dr. Ludger Lohmann: 14–15 Uhr Bach Passacaglia (4.50),
Prof. Jörg Halubek (3.01), Prof. Stefanie Neonato, DMA (7.25), Tobias Wittmann (3.03)

16–18 Uhr, Orgelräume
Kurse Prof. Helmut Deutsch (4.50), Prof. Jürgen Essl (3.01), Prof. Johannes Mayr (3.03)

18–19 Uhr, Raum 3.01
Podiumsdiskussion „Vier Wege zu Bachs Passacaglia“
Moderation: Dr. Regula Rapp

20 Uhr, Konzertsaal
KONZERT IV: Orgelkonzert der Kursteilnehmer*innen

5. Stuttgarter Orgelakademie, 09. – 16. Juli 2017

Zuhören – Ausprobieren – Diskutieren – Konzertieren
Artist in Residence: Guy Bovet
Orgelkurse mit Helmut Deutsch, Jürgen Essl, David Franke,
Jörg Halubek, Ludger Lohmann, Johannes Mayr
Orte: Orgelsammlung der HMDK Stuttgart &
Exkursionen zu den historischen Instrumenten in Oberschwaben

So, 09.07., 17 Uhr, Konzertsaal
Eröffnungskonzert der Stuttgarter Orgelakademie
Orgelkonzert am Sonntagnachmittag
Studierende der Orgelklassen

Mo, 10.07., 20 Uhr, Filderdom, Neuhausen auf den Fildern
Vorstellung der historischen Walckerorgel
Ludger Lohmann, Orgel
Werke von Schumann und Liszt

Di, 11.07., 20 Uhr Konzertsaal
Dozierendenkonzert
J. S. Bach: Chromatische Fantasie und Fuge d-Moll BWV 903
Jörg Halubek, Cembalo

Psalm 94
Annegret Müller, Rezitation

Julius Reubke: Sonate c-Moll "Der 94. Psalm"
Grave/Larghetto/Allegro con fuoco Adagio/Allegro
Helmut Deutsch, Orgel

J. S. Bach: Chromatische Fantasie und Fuge
für die Orgel bearbeitet von Max Reger
Jörg Halubek

Olivier Messiaen: Diptyque
György Ligeti: Volumina
Jürgen Essl, Orgel
Piet Meyer, Videoinstallation

Ludger Lohmann, Moderation

Mi, 12.07., 20 Uhr, Konzertsaal
Don Quijote :: Mélodrame pour orgue
Guy Bovet, Orgel :: Michael Speer, Sprecher
& Improvisationen von David Franke und Johannes Mayr

Do, 13.07., 20 Uhr, Konzertsaal
Konzert der Teilnehmer*innen

Dieterich Buxtehude
Präludium fis-Moll Bux WV 146
Andrey Romanov (Ukraine)

Juan Cabanilles
Tiento en tercio a modo de Italia
Shimizu Kanaka (Japan)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Passacaglia c-Moll BWV 582
Junyoung Choi (Korea)

Jehan Alain
Zème Fantaisie
Pedro Gomes (Portugal)

Olivier Messiaen
aus „La Nativité du Seigneur”: Les Anges
Barbara Salomon (Österreich)

aus „Messe de la Pentecôte“: Sortie
Denis Pisarevskij (Russland)

Improvisation
Lucas Bastian (Deutschland)
Johannes Zeinler (Österreich)

Franz Liszt
Präludium und Fuge über BACH
Francesca Ajossa (Italien)

So, 16.07., 17 Uhr, Basilika, Kloster Obermarchtal
Abschlusskonzert
Stuttgarter Orgelakademie

4. Stuttgarter Orgelakademie, 12. – 19. Juli 2015

3. Stuttgarter Orgelakademie, 14. – 21. Juli 2013

2. Stuttgarter Orgelakademie, 08. – 13. Juli 2012

So, 08.07., 18:30 Uhr, Konzertsaal
Wandelkonzert zur Eröffnung der Orgelakademie
Es spielen Preisträger*innen der Stuttgarter Orgelabteilung
anlässlich der Eröffnungsveranstaltung der 2. Stuttgarter Orgelakademie

Begrüßt werden ca. 40 junge Organist*innen aus Russland, Kasachstan, Kroatien, Serbien, Tschechien, Spanien, Frankreich, USA, Mexiko, Schweden, Österreich und Deutschland mit Prof. Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Bologna als “Artist in Residence” der Orgelwoche.

Mo, 09.07., 20 Uhr, Konzertsaal
Register und Figuren - Orgelimprovisation & Studiengang Figurentheater

"Improduktion" für Orgel
"Auf dem Dachboden", Figurentheater und Orgel
"MaFrEs", Improvisation für drei Orgeln
"CreatUhr", Figurentheater und Orgel

Prof. Jürgen Essl, David Franke, Johannes Mayr, Orgelimprovisation
Studierende der Klasse Prof. Stephanie Rinke, Figurentheater
Studierende der Klasse Prof. Florian Feisel, Figurentheater

Orgel trifft Kaleidoskop
Zu der improvisierten Musik von Prof. Jürgen Essl entspinnt sich aus der Spiegelung von schlafenden Körpern ein Panoptikum von virulenter Schönheit. In einem Kaleidoskop entwickeln sich groteske Gestalten, welche Figurenspielstudentinnen aus den eigenen Körpern vor den Augen des Publikums formen. Unter der Vergrößerung einer Kamera entsteht ein traumwandlerischer Kosmos in dem sich Klang & Bild begegnen.

Eine Kooperation zwischen den Studiengängen Orgel und Figurentheater der HMDK Stuttgart. Es spielen Julia Raab, Wiebke Schulz und Mirjam Ellenbroek (3. Studienjahr) unter der Leitung von Prof. Florian Feisel.

Di ,10.07., 20 Uhr, Konzertsaal
J. S. Bach: Cembalokonzerte

Konzert d-Moll für drei Cembali, Streicher und B.C. (BWV 1063)
(ohne Bez.) - Alla Siciliana – Allegro

Konzert D-Dur für Cembalo, Streicher und Basso Continuo (BWV 1054)
(ohne Bez.) - Adagio e piano sempre - Allegro
Krzysztof Urbaniak, Cembalo (Konzertexamen-Abschlussprüfung)

Konzert c-Moll für zwei Cembali, Streicher und B.C. (BWV 1060)
Allegro - Adagio - Allegro
Maximilian Schairer und Johannes Fiedler, Cembalo

Konzert C-Dur für drei Cembali, Streicher und B.C. (BWV 1064)
Allegro - Adagio - Allegro

Pierrot Quartett (1. Preis Carl-Wendling-Kammermusik-Wettbewerb 2012)
Johanne Klein, Violine
Luisa Höfs, Violine
Paula Heidecker, Viola
Hanna-Madeleine Kölbel, Violoncello
Elisabeth Büttner, Kontrabass
Leitung: Prof. Jörg Halubek