Alexander Lüken

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Choir Conductor / Artistic Director / Singer

Alexander Lüken is a conductor specializing in complex and rarely performed music. He is artistic director of the Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke and Junger Kammerchor Köln, collaborates with renowned ensembles and conductors, and is recording Friedrich Schneider's rediscovered Christ Trilogy. An alumnus of the Cusanuswerk, he studied conducting and Latin in Cologne and Weimar.

Winner of the Eric Ericson Award 2024

"With deep and well-grounded musical understanding and knowledge, our winner is a bridge between the choir, the music, and the audience.

Carrying the sound in their hands, we experienced someone who was excellently prepared and demonstrated great artistic courage, and who established a sense of mutual trust with the singers."

- The Eric Ericson Award Jury

About

Alexander Lüken

Alexander Lüken is assistant to the Cologne Radio Choir, artistic director of the Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke and the award-winning Junger Kammerchor Köln, which he founded. He works regularly with ChorWerk Ruhr and conductors such as Kent Nagano, Àdàm Fischer, Iván Fischer and George Benjamin. He has also worked with the RIAS Kammerchor, Det Norske Solistkor, the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra and the AUDI Youth Choir Academy, among others. He has appeared as a guest singer with various independent and radio ensembles.

In the broad spectrum of his work, his focus is on complex new and rarely performed music. He is currently conducting the first recording of the "Christ Trilogy" by Mendelssohn's contemporary Friedrich Schneider, which was rediscovered after more than 150 years without performance and the first part of which was nominated in two categories for the Opus Klassik.

Alexander Lüken studied choral and orchestral conducting with Marcus Creed, Jürgen Puschbeck and Ekhart Wycik at the Cologne and Weimar Universities of Music, as well as Latin at the University of Cologne. His training was supplemented by courses with Florian Helgath, Grete Pedersen, Volker Hempfling and others. He is an alumnus of the Cusanuswerk.

Tour Dates

Kommissar Krächz (Einstudierung)

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln - WDR Rundfunkchor

Kommissar Krächz (Einstudierung)

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln - WDR Rundfunkchor

Kommissar Krächz (Einstudierung)

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln - WDR Rundfunkchor

Kommissar Krächz (Einstudierung)

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln - WDR Rundfunkchor

Bach Johannespassion

Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke - Kulturzentrum Immanuel, Wuppertal

Kammerchor an der Universität Bonn

Schlosskirche Bonn

Kammerchor an der Universität Bonn

Kreuzbergkirche Bonn

Stadthalle Hagen

Stadthalle Hagen - WDR Rundfunkchor

Bach Matthäuspassion (Einstudierung)

Kölner Philharmonie - WDR Rundfunkchor

Erftclassics

Erlebniswanderweg Erftstadt - Junger Kammerchor Köln

Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke

Kulturzentrum Immanuel Wuppertal

Junger Kammerchor Köln und Cantus Domus Berlin

St. Gereon

Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker

Hitzacker

Kammerchor-Festival

Köln

Contact

Phone: +49 1575 335 38 45
Email: info@alexanderlueken.de