 | This biographical article is written like a résumé .(August 2010) |
Elke Voelker (born April 3, 1968, in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German organist, church musician and musicologist.
| This biographical article is written like a résumé .(August 2010) |
Elke Voelker (born April 3, 1968, in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German organist, church musician and musicologist.
Elke Voelker studied organ, church music, German and Roman languages and musicology at the universities of Mannheim, Mainz and Heidelberg. Among her teachers were Leo Krämer, Mathias Breitschaft, Ludwig Finscher.
A scholarship allowed her to study abroad with Wolfgang Rübsam (Chicago), Nicolas Kynaston (London), Michelle Leclerc (Schola Cantorum de Paris), Jean Guillou and Daniel Roth.
1996-2008 Voelker worked as Choir Organist and Cathedral Music Associate at the UNESCO Heritage St. Marys Imperial Cathedral of Speyer. 2009 she was nominated Interims Music Director and Cathedral Organist. Voelker maintains an activ international concert schedule and teaching career.
She is member of the English Karg-Elert Archive, [1] of the German Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde (GdO), [2] the American Guild of Organists [3] and Honorary Member of the Associazione Organistica Siciliana. Besides this, she is Founder and Artistic Director of the “Internationaler Orgelherbst Deidesheim” and of the Russian "International Organ Festival Philharmony Perm".
Voelker published numerous articles in Musik in Gegenwart und Geschichte (Bärenreiter), [4] in ORGAN - Journal für die Orgel (Schott) [5] and in Lexikon der Orgel (Laaber). [6]
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