Martin Neu
Biography Martin Neu
Martin Neu
completed his studies at the Stuttgart University of Music, at Concordia University in Montreal (Canada) and at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.
His organ teachers included Werner Jacob, Bernard Lagacé, Bernhard Haas and Gerhard Gnann. During his two years of study in Canada, he also attended music theory courses with Bengt Hambraeus at Mc. Gill University in Montreal.
As an organist, Martin Neu has received numerous scholarships and prizes (including the Rotary Club, DAAD, Ansbach Bach Week, Podium for Young Artists Foundation, and the 2000 Leipzig Bach Competition). In 1993, he was accepted into the German National Academic Foundation. In 2002, the University of Mainz awarded him the Johannes Gutenberg Prize "for outstanding artistic achievements".
Since 2001, Martin Neu has been cantor at St. Peter and Paul with St. Elisabeth in Reutlingen and deanery church musician for the deanery of Reutlingen/Zwiefalten.
Invitations to concerts and jury work have taken him to Germany and abroad (including the Treviso Organ Festival, Rapallo Musica, Academia de órgano Cuenca, Città di Vicenza, Rhineland-Palatinate Cultural Summer, Max Reger Days Wiesbaden, Krummhörner Orgelfrühling, Festival Suisse de l'Orgue). This has resulted in projects with the Kunsthalle Munich, the Goethe Institute Genoa, SWR and ZDF, among others.
In recent years he has also devoted himself more to playing the clavichord.
His interest in playing music on historical instruments led to radio recordings and CD recordings that received international recognition (longlist for the German Record Prize, Early Music Review, American Record Guide, Gramophone...).
