Weseler Domkonzert - Orchester & Orgel
WESELER DOMKONZERT
Orchester & Orgel
Masterpieces of German Romanticism
Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901)
Organ Concerto No. 2, G minor, op. 177
for organ, two trumpets, two horns, timpani, and strings
Ludwig Baumann (1866-1944)
Andante religioso op. 12
for organ and strings
Paul Huber (1918-2001)
Concerto for organ and orchestra
for organ, two trumpets, timpani, and strings
Ansgar Schlei | Organ
Löricker Kammerorchester
Ulrich Cyganek | Conductor
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Since its founding in 1974, the Löricker Kammerorchester has consistently developed into a fixed component of the cultural life on the left bank of the Rhine. Initially musically based at the Philippus Church in the Düsseldorf district of Lörick, the orchestra has over the years also organized numerous performances together with the local choir.
For over two decades, the chamber orchestra has been based at the Bethlehem Church in Meerbusch-Büderich and regularly presents concerts in different formations. Thematically related program arrangements such as "Very British," "Bella Italia," or "With Timpani and Trumpets" provide stylistic diversity with works from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The orchestra particularly aims to surprise the audience time and again with unknown works or rarely performed composers.
In addition to pure string music, solo concerts, often featuring instrumental soloists from within the ranks, as well as occasional cantata performances, are almost always a fixed part of the repertoire. Since 2011, the musical direction of the chamber orchestra has been in the hands of Landeskirchenmusikdirektor i.R. Ulrich Cyganek.
Ansgar Schlei studied Protestant church music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover with Cornelius Schneider-Pungs and Pier Damiano Peretti (Artistic organ playing), Hans-Joachim Rolf (Liturgical organ playing), as well as Gerrit Zitterbart (Piano), Peter-Anton Ling (Singing), and Hildebrandt Haake (Choral conducting). He completed additional organ studies with Bine Katrine Bryndorf (Copenhagen), Carlo Hommel (Luxembourg), Ton Koopman (Amsterdam), Michael Radulescu (Vienna), Reinhold Richter (Mönchengladbach), and Harald Vogel (Bremen).
In the summer of 2005, he passed his church music A-exam with distinction in the field of artistic organ playing.
He also studied law in Göttingen, Hagen, and Cologne.
In 2000, Ansgar Schlei was temporarily the organist at the Christ Pavilion at the World Expo EXPO in Hannover. After working as a church musician in Springe and Hannover, he followed the call of the Ev.-luth. Petri-Pauli congregation Bad Münder am Deister in 2001, where he worked predominantly as an organist and choir director as well as the artistic director of the concert series "Klanghorizonte Bad Münder" and the "Evening Music Bad Münder" series that he initiated.
From 2004 to 2008, Ansgar Schlei was vice president of the Association of Protestant Church Musicians in the Ev.-luth. Church of Hanover. In his capacity as a board member of the Hanoverian church musician association, he was also a member of the labor and service law commission of the Confederation of Protestant Churches in Lower Saxony for some time.
In December 2005, he followed the call to the Willibrordi Cathedral in Wesel, where he has been serving as a cantor since April 2006. Furthermore, he is the district cantor in the Wesel church district of the Protestant Church in the Rhineland.
He is also the head of a training course for part-time church musicians in the Niederrhein region and a member of the state church examination committee for church music.
Since 2020, Ansgar Schlei has been the chairman of the Association for Church Music in the Protestant Church in the Rhineland e.V.
In 2022, he was awarded the title "Church Music Director" by the Protestant Church in the Rhineland for his services to church music.
His extensive concert activities regularly take him throughout Germany and to neighboring countries. Several CD productions, as well as radio and television recordings, complement his extensive musical work.
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