Martin Lutz
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| Born | 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 has been the musical director of the concert choir Schiersteiner Kantorei in Wiesbaden since 1972 and founded the festival Wiesbadener Bachwochen.
Lutz studied church music and musicology at the Evangelisches Kirchenmusikalisches Institut Heidelberg, and art history and ancient history at the University of Mainz.
He has been active since 1972 as a cantor of the Christophoruskirche (St. Christopher Church) in Wiesbaden-Schierstein. He has been the conductor of the Schiersteiner Kantorei, a choir of then about 40 singers, which he shaped to one of the largest concert choirs in Hesse. He is also the conductor of the chamber orchestra Bach-Ensemble Wiesbaden. 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. In 1975, Lutz founded the festival Wiesbadener Bachwochen, and in 1994, the Musikherbst Wiesbaden. From 1981 to 1999 he was a lecturer in the Musicology Institute of the University of Mainz. From 1997 to 2003 he taught conducting at the Hochschule 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.
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 ensemble Parnassi Musici.
On 8 May 1995, 50 years after the end of World War II, he conducted a performance of Britten's War Requiem during a ceremony of the government of Hesse at the Kurhaus Wiesbaden, with choirs from countries who were opponents during the war, the Swindon Choral Society from Swindon, UK, the Macon Civic Chorale from Macon, Georgia, the Schiersteiner Kantorei and the Chor von St. Bonifatius, prepared by Gabriel Dessauer.
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