Matthias Geuting is an organist, improviser and musicologist. He studied church music at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, organ with Gerd Zacher, and musicology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on the concertos and sonatas of Johann Sebastian Bach. With Hermann J. Busch he edited the “Lexikon der Orgel” (Laaber 2007). In 2016 he taught at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen and at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf and worked regularly as an organist and improviser with the actress Maria Neumann, the dancer and choreographer Henrietta Horn and the E-MEX Ensemble; he has given numerous premieres of contemporary organ works. On the album Juan Allende-Blin and the Ensemble (2016) he reads Gerd Zacher’s text “Über das Unsägliche in der Musik von Juan Allende-Blin” (2012).
Matthias Geuting
Organ / Musicologist / Improviser
