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Martin Lutz | |
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| Born | (1950-05-19)19 May 1950 |
| Education | Evangelisches Kirchenmusikalisches Institut Heidelberg |
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| Awards | Goethe-Plakette des Landes Hessen |
Martin Lutz (born 19 May 1950) is a German musicologist, conductor and harpsichordist. He was the musical director of the concert choirSchiersteiner Kantorei inWiesbaden from 1972 to 2017, and founded the biennial festivalWiesbadener Bachwochen in 1975.
Lutz studied church music and musicology at theEvangelisches Kirchenmusikalisches Institut Heidelberg, and art history and ancient history at theUniversity of Mainz.[1][2]
He has been active since 1972 as a cantor of theChristophoruskirche (St. Christopher Church) in Wiesbaden-Schierstein. He has been the conductor of theSchiersteiner Kantorei, a choir of then about 40 singers, which he shaped to one of the largest concert choirs inHesse.[1] He is also the conductor of the chamber orchestraBach-Ensemble Wiesbaden.[1][3][4] He continued the series Schiersteiner Vespermusik at the Christophoruskirche, vespers music started by his predecessor, as a forum for early music in Wiesbaden. More than 400 concerts took place as of 2011.[5] In 1975, Lutz founded the festivalWiesbadener Bachwochen, and in 1994, theMusikherbst Wiesbaden.[1] From 1981 to 1999 he was a lecturer in the Musicology Institute of theUniversity of Mainz. From 1997 to 2003 he taught conducting at theHochschule für Musik Frankfurt. Since 2003 he is teaching again at the University of Mainz as an oratorio and early music specialist. He was appointed as a professor in 2009.[2]
He has performed as a harpsichordist, organist and conductor in France, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Austria, Poland, Portugal, China, Switzerland and the Netherlands. He is also a member of the baroque ensembleParnassi Musici.[2]
On 8 May 1995, 50 years after the end of World War II, he conducted a performance of Britten'sWar Requiem during a ceremony of the government of Hesse at theKurhaus Wiesbaden,[1] with choirs from countries who were opponents during the war, the Swindon Choral Society fromSwindon, UK, the Macon Civic Chorale fromMacon, Georgia, the Schiersteiner Kantorei and theChor von St. Bonifatius, prepared byGabriel Dessauer.
He recorded Bach'sSt Matthew Passion andSt John Passion with the Schiersteiner Kantorei andChristoph Prégardien as theEvangelist, andBach cantatas for solo alto withAndreas Scholl.[6]
Since 2004, he is part of a project to perform allBach sacred cantatas in monthly services, introduced by a lecture. The services are held at both the Marktkirche and theKatharinenkirche, Frankfurt, in a collaboration with the Kantorei St. Katharinen and theHochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt.[1][7][8]
For his artistic work, he was awarded the Public Service Medal of the City of Wiesbaden Silver (1987) and in Gold (1997), the Culture Prize of the City of Wiesbaden (1990, together with the Schiersteiner Kantorei) and theGoethe-Plakette des Landes Hessen (Goethe Medal of the State of Hesse) in 2007.[1]
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