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Michael Gerisch (Choral Conductor, Organ)

Born: 1958 - Falkenstein, Vogtland, Germany

The German choral conductor, organist and church musician, Michael Gerisch, began taking piano and violin lessons at an early age. From 1974 he studied church music in Dresden and at the Musikhochschule "Franz Liszt" in Weimar. He successfully completed his studies with the A exam (diploma in music).

In 1985 Michael Gerisch became Kantor and organist of the Kirchengemeinde Dresden Bad Weißer Hirsch and was appointed lecturer in score playing and organ at the Kirchenmusikschule Dresden. He can look back on numerous organ concerts, including being the guest organist of the Dresdner Philharmonie and the Dresdner Kreuzchor during his time in Dresden.

Michael Gerisch has been a church musician in the Kirchengemeinde Kassel-Kirchditmold since 1992. The focus of his work here is choral work with children, young people and adults. He conducts the "Kirchemäuse", the Kinderchor, the Kantorei Kirchditmold and the Seniorenchor. Worship services are regularly accompanied by music, and these choral groups have long been active nationwide. Highlights are the performances of oratorios, e.g. in 2004 the widely acclaimed and critically acclaimed performance of J.S. Bach's Matthäus-Passion (BWV 244) with the Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum Leipzig.

The importance of church music - the word-tone relationship - is of crucial importance for Michael Gerisch: "Making music outside and inside the service has an exclusively preaching character!" The gospel in connection with music often has a deeper entrance into the human soul than the "just" spoken word. In the evening music that takes place every Saturday at 6 p.m. in the Kirchditmolder Kirche, he plays a variety of chamber, solo, vocal and instrumental music. The church interior should be a place of reflection and encounter for the people.

On January 18, 2004, Michael Gerisch was appointed Kirchenmusikdirektor (KMD) by the Bishop of the Evangelischen Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck for his musical services.


Sources:
Kantorei Kirchditmold der evangelischen Petrus-Kirchengemeinde Kassel Website, English translation by Aryeh Oron (October 2022)
Contributed by
Aryeh Oron (October 2022)

Michael Gerisch: Short Biography | Ensembles: Kantorei Kirchditmold
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Kantorei Kirchditmold der evangelischen Petrus-Kirchengemeinde Kassel: Der Kirchenmusiker [German]


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