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The German choral conductor, organist and church musician, Christoph Dominilk Ostendorf, completed his church music studies in (A-Exam) at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen. He continued his organ studies with Patrick Delabre in Chartres and Paris in addition to numerous master-classes and was accepted into the conducting class of the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin. Since 2015, he studies in the organ master-class with Professor R.M. Stangier.
Christoph Ostendorf lives and works as a choral conductor and organist in Berlin. A busy concert activity as organist has led him to numerous concerts and festivals in Germany and abroad (UK, France, Italy, Poland, Russia, etc.). After his four-year full-time employment as Kantor of the Pfarrei Herz Jesu in Bottrop, he was Kantor and organist at the Kreuzkirche in Berlin-Schmargendorf from 2009 to 2015. In addition to monthly organ concerts he established there regular oratorio concerts (including Felix Mendelssohn's Paulus, J. Haydn's " Schöpfung, W.A. Mozart's Requiem, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Die Israeliten in der Wüste, J.S. Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium (BWV 248), Magnificat (BWV 243) and various cantatas) with the local Kantorei, accompanied by the ensemble founded by him, Concentus Crucis’, consisting of academics and members of the leading Berlin orchestras.
Since January, 2016 Christoph Ostendorf is Kantor and organist at St. Jacobi-Luisenstadt; since 2017 Kantor of the Ev. Kirchengemeinde in Kreuzberg-Mitte (St. Jacobi-Luisenstadt, St. Simeon, Melanchthon). He is the founder and Artistic Director of the ensemble Komitas and the Univocale Kammerchor Berlin. |
