Martin Lücker

Career

Born in Preußisch Oldendorf, Lücker studied organ in Hannover and in Vienna with Anton Heiller, and conducting in Detmold with Martin Stephani. He first worked there at the Landestheater Detmold as repetiteur, then as assistant of the choir director at the Oper Frankfurt.

From 1983, he has been organist of the main Protestant church of Frankfurt, the Katharinenkirche. He has been professor of Künstlerisches Orgelspiel und Methodik/Didaktik des Orgelunterrichtes (concert organ playing and didactic of teaching organ playing) at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main from 1998. From August 2011, he has also been the conductor of the chamber choir Figuralchor Frankfurt.

At the Katharinenkirche, he established two regular concert series. In "30 Minuten Orgelmusik" (30 minutes of organ music“, he plays every Monday and Thursday at 4:30 pm a free concert of 30 minutes, playing the 3000th concert in 2013. In "Musik in Sankt Katharinen" (Music in Saint Catharine's), he offers two organ concerts a months, played by himself and guests, and choral music with the Kantorei St. Katharinen.

In 2012, he played a concert at the historic Stumm organ of the Rheingauer Dom with a program that Albert Schweitzer had performed in Frankfurt in 1928 on a similar instrument that was destroyed. He celebrated his 30th anniversary at the Katharinenkirche with a concert.

Selected recordings