Jörg Reddin

Jörg Reddin is a cantor at the Bach Church in Arnstadt since September 1, 2013 as a successor to Gottfried Preller, who had initiated both the Thuringian organ summer and the Bach festival and managed to make Arnstadt famous again among music lovers. Reddin is also responsible for the cantonal function for the entire church of the Ilm District . In 1985 he was first taught piano playing and in 1988 began training as an organist with Christiane Werbs, Erich Piasetzki, Fritz Abs and Eva Schad. After two professional trainings as an offset printer and accountant he realized that this would certainly not be a still satisfactory sphere of occupation. That is why he was intensely involved in playing the organ during that time. In 1996 he was awarded first place at the international organ competition of the Hanseatic cities in Elburg. From autumn 1997 to summer 2001 he studied church music at the College of Music and Theater in Hamburg , some with Jan Ernst (organ) and Wilfried Jochens (vocals). An Erasmus scholarship allowed him to go to Vienna in October 2001, where he studied with Professors Michael Radulescu and Gertraud Berka-Schmid (from 2002-05). In addition, he studied choral conducting (Alois Glaßner) and organ music (Florian Pagitsch). He took courses in organ playing at Michael Schönheit (Leipzig) and Martin Sander (Heidelberg) and singing at Tünde Szabóki (Budapest) and the burgundy Maresa Hörbiger (Vienna). In January 2005 he sang as a choir soloist at a concert performance of the opera Idomeneo under the direction of Daniel Harding as part of the International Mozart Week in Salzburg . After serving as a church musician at the Bismarck Memorial Church in Aumühle and as a cantor at the Bützow Convent Church he was a cantor at St. Mary's Church in Plau am See and a lecturer at the music school in Neubrandenburg . In 2011 he further graduated from the Department of Church Music A at the Evangelical College of Church Music in Halle (Saale) with Johannes Unger (organ playing), Volker Bräutigam (improvisation) and Wolfgang Kupke (conducting).