Hans Davidsson

Hans Davidsson (born 1958 in Sweden) is a Swedish organist and musicologist.

Life and work

Hans Davidsson studied with Hans Fagius at the Music School of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1985 and made his diploma in organ playing. His interest in early music then led him to a three-year study with Jacques van at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam Oortmerssen and studies at the Gothenburg University, where he worked on research on the North German organ music of the Baroque, especially with Matthias Weckmann. Davidsson received his doctorate in 1991 with a thesis on Matthias Weckmann and was thus the first graduate of a scientific and artistic studies in Sweden.

He regularly gives concerts since 1974 in the Nordic and the other European countries, the USA and Asia. At the Music Academy of Gothenburg University Davidsson 1986 was hired as a music teacher and appointed 1988 Professor of Organ. Among other things, he heads there since 1989, the establishment of a center for research on organ performance practice. From 1995 to 2000 he was director of the Göteborg Organ Art Center ( GOArt ); has enjoyed a long artistic director as well as artistic director of the Göteborg International Organ Academy.

He was appointed Professor of Organ at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York ( USA) at the same time in 2001, where he also served as director of the organ project Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative ( EROI ). In 2006 he was finally appointed professor of organ at the University of the Arts ( University of the Arts ) in Bremen.

Awards

• 2001: ÅForsk Research Award from the Research Foundation of the Swedish ÅF Group
• 2004: Medal of the Swedish king

Importance

Hans Davidsson is considered an important representative of early music, where he drew in the last phase of the factory faithful interpretation. He made with the integration phase of research and practice in Gothenburg and is now believed that belong to specific compositions such as North German, Italian and so on matching organs. Works of the North German Baroque as Matthias Weckmann and Dietrich Buxtehude owe him their faithful to the original rediscovery and performance in a historical context. Since the 1980s he made ​​numerous CD recordings.

In addition, he coined and stamped since the late 1980s as a teacher at the major music colleges organist training.

Davidsson is looking for new ways of communicating classical concerts and relies on a combination of talk and music.