Jürgen Essl

* 1961 in Stuttgart; Jürgen Essl received his training with Ludger Lohmann, Willibald Bezler, Francis Chapelet and Michael Radulescu in Stuttgart, Bordeaux and Vienna. After his studies he was a church musician in Sigmaringen. In 1997 he was appointed professor of organ at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, in 2003 at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. In the same year he received the Kirchenmusikpreis des Landes Baden-Württemberg for composition. His repertoire ranges from early music to premieres; Jan Jirasek dedicated the organ concerto “Dance with the Universe” (2012) to him. As director of the Orpheus Vokalensemble and of Concerto Köln and Ars Antiqua Austria he performed rediscovered 18th-century music from Upper Swabia with the SWR and the Carus-Verlag. His compositions for choir, organ, piano and ensembles include the oratorio “De Angelis”. In 2018 Cybele Records released his recordings of the six Conciertos for two organs by Antonio Soler as well as improvisations for two organs in the Catedral Metropolitana in Mexico City.