Jürgen Budday

Jürgen Budday ( * 1948 ) is a German conductor and director of church music. He is conductor of the cantor choir and the chamber choir Maulbronner and had to be October 16, 2013 Artistic Director of Maulbronner monastery concerts. His focus is in the genre of historical and contemporary vocal music, as well as in the performance of oratorios with period instruments. From February 1979 to July 2012 he was also director of studies at the Protestant seminary Maulbronn.

Biography

Jürgen Budday studied at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart school music, church music and musicology, and taught from 1979 to 2012 as a high school music teacher at the Evangelical Seminar Maulbronn.

For his teaching and artistic work, he received, among other things, the Federal Cross of Merit (1998) and the Bruno -Frey Prize of the Academy Ochsenhausen. In appreciation of his services as a " brilliant musical ambassador Baden -Württemberg " he was awarded the honorary title of Professor awarded by the Prime Minister of Baden- Württemberg on February 1, 2011. Since 2002 Jürgen Budday will also chair of the choral committee of the German Music Council and in that capacity is overall head of the German Choir Competition.

Under his leadership Maulbronn the K & K Publishing Company originated in the edition number of recordings of concerts on CD, including, inter alia, the Handel oratorio " Jephtha ," " Samson ," " Judas Maccabaeus " and " Saul" with Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta and Stephen Varcoe.

Discography

Oratorios by Handel

In historical performance practice

• Jephtha - Oratorio in three acts, in the original English with Emma Kirkby (soprano), Melinda Paulsen (mezzo- soprano), Charles Humphries ( Altus ), Julian Podger (tenor ), Stephen Varcoe ( bass), Maulbronner Chamber Choir, Conductor: Jürgen Budday, Baroque Orchestra of the monastery concerts ( live recording, 1998 Edition Maulbronn )
• Samson - Oratorio in three acts, in English with Sinéad Pratschke, Michael Chance, Marc LeBrocq, Raimund Nolte, David Thomas, Maulbronner Chamber Choir, Baroque Orchestra of the monastery Concerts, Conductor: Jürgen Budday ( live recording, 1999 Edition Maulbronn )
• Judas Maccabaeus - Oratorio in three acts, in the original English with Sinéad Pratschke ( Soprano ), Catherine King ( mezzo- soprano), Charles Humphries ( Altus ), Mark LeBrocq (tenor ), Christopher Purves ( bass), Maulbronner Chamber Choir, Musica Florea Prague, Artistic Conductor: Jürgen Budday ( live recording, 2000, Maulbronn Monastery Edition )
• Saul - Oratorio in three acts, in the original English with Nancy Argenta (soprano), Laurie Reviol (soprano), Michael Chance ( alto ), Marc LeBrocq (tenor ), Michael Berner ( tenor), Stephen Varcoe ( bass), Steffen Balbach ( bass), Hanoverian Court Orchestra, Maulbronner chamber Choir, Conductor: Jürgen Budday ( live recording, 2002 Edition Maulbronn )
• Solomon - Oratorio in three acts, in the original English with Nancy Argenta (soprano), Laurie Reviol (soprano), Michael Chance ( alto ), Julian Podger (tenor ), Steffen Balbach ( bass), Hanoverian Court Orchestra, Maulbronner Chamber Choir Artistic Director: Jürgen Budday ( live recording, 2003 Edition Maulbronn )
• Belshazzar - Oratorio in English with Miriam Allan ( soprano), Michael Chance ( alto ), Patrick van Goethem ( alto ), Marc LeBrocq (tenor ), Stephen Varcoe ( bass), Maulbronner Chamber Choir, Hanoverian Court Orchestra. Conductor: Jürgen Budday ( live recording, 2005 Edition Maulbronn )
• The Messiah - Unedited version of the oratorio in three parts in the original English with Miriam Allan ( soprano), Michael Chance ( alto ), Mark LeBrocq ( tenor) and Christopher Purves ( bass). Maulbronner Chamber Choir, Hanoverian Court Orchestra. Conductor: Jürgen Budday ( live recording, 2005 Edition Maulbronn )
• The Messiah - complete recording of the oratorio in three parts by Georg Friedrich Handel, edited by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with Marlis Petersen ( soprano), Margot Oitzinger (Alt ), Markus Schäfer ( tenor), Marek Rzepka ( bass), Maulbronner Chamber Choir, Hanoverian Court Orchestra. Conductor: Jürgen Budday ( live recording, 2006 edition Kloster Maulbronn )
• Joshua - Unedited version from 1748 of the oratorio in English by George Frideric Handel with Miriam Allan ( soprano), David Allsopp ( countertenor, alto ), Mark LeBrocq (tenor ), James Rutherford ( bass), Hanoverian Court Orchestra, Maulbronner Chamber Choir. Conductor: Jürgen Budday ( live recording, 2007 edition Kloster Maulbronn )

Vocal music a cappella

• All my heart Thoughts ~ choral music of romance, Maulbronner Chamber Choir, Conductor: Jürgen Budday, 1991
• Restore to me ~ Sacred choral music, Maulbronner Chamber Choir, Conductor: Jürgen Budday, 1993
• From early in the morning ... and up to the Night - A musical daily routine according to the tradition of canonical hours - Maulbronner Chamber Choir, Conductor: Jürgen Budday (1999, Maulbronn Monastery Edition )
• You turn my mourning into dancing - Sacred Choral Music - Maulbronner Chamber Choir, Conductor: Jürgen Budday, 2003
• The lives and exists ~ Birth - finite - eternity. Maulbronner Chamber Choir, Conductor: Jürgen Budday. Concert recording from the monastery church Maulbronn 2006.
• The night shines like the day. Maulbronner Chamber Choir, Conductor: Jürgen Budday. Concert recording from the monastery church Maulbronn 2010.

Other Publications

• Gioacchino Rossini Petit Messe Solenelle in the version for two pianos and harmonium with Laura de Souza (soprano), Dalia Schaechter (Alt ), Keith Ikaia Purdy (Tenor ), Max Wittges ( bass), Ennio Pastorino and An Li Pang ( Pianos), Carlotte Lootgieter ( Harmonium), Artistic Director: Jürgen Budday. ( Live recording, 1996)
• Louis Spohr: The Last Things ( oratory ): complete recording of the original German version from 1826 with Miriam Meyer ( soprano), Ursula Eittinger ( Mezzo - Soprano), Marcus Ullmann (Tenor ), Josef Wagner ( bass), cantor choir, Russian Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg, Conductor: Jürgen Budday. ( Live recording, 2010)

Swell

CD releases of K & K Publishing Company / Various press articles / websites: Seminar Maulbronn, Maulbronner Chamber Choir, Monastery Maulbronn, Jürgen Budday