Martin Bambauer (born 1970 in Wesel) is a German organist and church musician. Bambauer studied church music at the

Robert Schumann Hochschule The Robert Schumann Hochschule (Robert Schumann University of Music and Media) is a school for music studies at the university level located in Düsseldorf. The University has a student body of some 850 coming from over 40 countries. Forty-seven ...

in Düsseldorf with Hans-Dieter Möller and passed his examination with distinction for

improvisation Improvisation is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found. Improvisation in the performing arts is a very spontaneous performance without specific or scripted preparation. The skills of impr ...

. Further he studied with Daniel Roth in Frankfurt am Main and passed the ''Konzertexamen'' in 2001. Since 2002 he has been a teacher for organ-improvisation at the Musikhochschule in

Köln Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 million ...

. Bambauer is organist and choir director at the Basilica of Constantine in Trier.

Awards

* First prize International organ-competition of Elburg (NL) * First prize for improvisation in Schwäbisch Gmünd

Discographie

* 2001: Orgelmusik aus Fünf Jahrhunderten (the Schuke-organ of the Basilica of Constantine) * 2004: Franck und Seine Freunde (IFO 00 090)

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Biographie Martin Bambauer t

1970 births Living people German classical organists Kirchenmusikdirektor German male organists Organ improvisers People from Wesel Robert Schumann Hochschule alumni 21st-century organists 21st-century German male musicians Male classical organists {{organist-stub