Stefan Engels

This article is about the organist. For the German football player, see Stephan Engels. For the marathon runner, see Stefaan Engels.

Stefan Engels is an internationally renowned German organist.

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 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.

Discography

External links

Stefan Engels at Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc.

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 66576980 LCCN: no2006091464 GND: 124063241

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