Name Stefan Engels | Role Organist | |
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Similar People Sigfrid Karg‑Elert, James David Christie, Hans‑Ola Ericsson, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Jon Laukvik | ||
"Rise up my love" by Paul Stetsenko (1996)
Stefan Engels is an internationally renowned German organist.
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Career
Stefan Engels studied at the Musikhochschulen in Aachen, Düsseldorf, and Köln. From 1993 to 1998, he studied with Robert Anderson and Wolfgang Rübsam. In 1998, he won the "Concerto Gold Medal" at the Calgary International Organ Competition, an event which helped earn him significant name recognition in the organ world.
From 1999 to 2005, he was Associate Professor of Organ at Westminster Choir College. Since 2005, he has taught at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy" in Leipzig, Germany. Currently he is involved in an ambitious project to record with Priory Records company the complete organ works of Sigfrid Karg-Elert, making him the first person to do so. He has performed in the United States at St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, SC in 2010. He is represented by Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc.