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Born: July 21, 1989 - Weil am Rhein, near Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
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The German organist, choral conductor and church musician, Johannes Lang, studied period performance practice for keyboard instruments/harpsichord with Robert Hill and church music (organ with Martin Schmeding, improvisation with Karl Ludwig Kreutz, conducting (choral and orchestral) with Jan Schumacher, Steffen Schreyer, Manfred Schreier and Andreas Winnen and voice and ensemble singing with Torsten Meyer) at the Musikhochschule Freiburg. He earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in the summer of 2013 and is now pursuing a master’s degree in the same subjects at the music conservatory. After earning First Prize commendations eleven times as an organist, harpsichordist and pianist at the nationwide “Jugend musiziert” competition in Germany, he also won competitions in Lübeck (2009), Bellelay (2011), and Leipzig (2012) and was named a prize winner at competitions in Ljubljana (2007), Herford (2008) and Munich (ARD 2011). He has earned a scholarship with the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.
Johannes Lang pursues a very active international concert career. He has also collaborated with such concert artists as Gottfried von der Goltz, Karl Kaiser, Reinhold Friedrich, Joachim Pliquett, Teodor Currentzis and Markus Landerer, and appeared in concert as an organ or harpsichord soloist with the Bergische Symphoniker, Badische Kammerphilharmonie, Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg and Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphonieorchester. After serving as music director at the Kreuzkirche Freiburg from October 2009 to September 2013. From September 2013 to October 2016, he was Stadtkantor of the Lutheran Church in Lörrach, Germany and also been a teaching assistant for liturgical organ performance/improvisation at the Musikhochschule Freiburg. He also served as a juror for organ at the “Jugend musiziert” competition in 2012. He became Kantor at the Friedenskirche Potsdam-Sanssouci since October 2016 and was provisional Kreiskantor for the Kirchenkreis Potsdam in 2017. Since 2019 he has been a lecturer for organ at the C-Seminar of the EKBO and at the Kirchenmusikalischen Institut der UdK Berlin. In 2019-2020 he was a substitute Professor for organ literature playing at the UdK Berlin and is currently training to become a carilloneur.
Johannes Lang's artistry is documented in recordings made for radio, television and on various CD labels. He currently lives in Freiburg Im Breisgau. |
