ROMAN EMILIUS – organ
The great Church of the Holy Trinity in Regensburg has finally gotten its long desired “Bach organ”, with its new organ by Hendrik Ahrend. Church music director Roman Emilius introduces the new instrument with its warm and varied tonal qualities in a programme first given at the dedication concert. A memorable experience.
Release: June 2021
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH (1714 – 1788)
02 Aus der Tiefen rufe ich
Choralbearbeitung in zwei Teilen BWV Anh. 745
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685 – 1750)
03 Toccata und Fuge d-Moll BWV 565
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756 – 1791)
Zauberflöten-Suite
(Zusammenstellung und Bearbeitung: Roman Emilius)
04 Marsch der Priester
05 Gebet des Sarastro
06 Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen
07 Gesang der geharnischten Männer
08 Es siegte die Stärke
OLIVIER MESSIAEN (1908 – 1992)
09 Chants d’oiseaux (Gesänge der Vögel)
aus: Livre d’orgue (1951)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
10 Passacaglia c-Moll BWV 582
Roman Emilius was born in Nuremberg in 1963. He began music lessons on the piano, violin, and organ, and later went on to study church music at the Music University in Frankfurt/Main. While there, he studied with Edgar Krapp (organ), Wolfgang Schaeffer (choral conducting), Irina Edelstein (piano), and Jiři Stárek (orchestral conducting). He completed the final degrees (Examen) in church music and organ performance and the Diplom (Master of Music) in orchestral conducting. In 1988, he won the Cultural Sponsorship Award from the city of Erlangen. After spending a year as an assistant in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, in 1992 he received a scholarship from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture for the “Cité Internationale des Arts” in Paris. Along with his duties as choir master at the Church of the Resurrection in Fürth, he was the pianist for the ars nova ensemble of Nuremberg from 1994 to 1998. In 1997 he became the choir master at the Church of Christ in Munich. He teaches choral conducting in the church music division at the Munich University of Music. Since October of 2008 he has been the Evangelical City and Deanery Cantor in Regensburg and the conductor of the Regensburg University Chorus.
