New organ professorship

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Great news at the start of the semester: organist and church musician Martin Gregorius has been appointed as the new Professor of Organ and Improvisation at the Outer Alster for the winter semester 2025/26.

Vita
Martin Gregorius, born in 1991 in Gdynia, Poland, studied organ, improvisation, church music, music theory and composition at the Gdansk Academy of Music, Detmold University of Music, the Paris Conservatory and Lyon Conservatory with Michel Bouvard, Hanna Dys, Thierry Escaich, François Espinasse, Olivier Latry, Philippe Lefebvre, Tomasz Adam Nowak, Pierre Pincemaille and Roman Perucki.
In 2017, he received his doctorate from the University of Music in Poznan with his dissertation Organ Improvisation in the Tradition of the French Organ School.[1]
Gregorius has received several prizes and awards at international organ competitions in Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Austria and Poland. In 2016, he won the organ improvisation competition "Westfalen Impro 6" in Münster/Billerbeck and the organ improvisation competition in Aigen-Schlägl, Austria. He has also received various cultural awards and scholarships, including those from the Polish President, the Polish Prime Minister and the Alfred Toepfer Foundation. His regular appearances at European, Asian and US organ festivals have taken him to the cathedrals of Erfurt, Luxembourg, Magdeburg, Mainz, Munich, Paderborn, the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City and the Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra in Gdansk.
In the 2017/2018 concert season, Martin Gregorius was organist in residence at the Sapporo Concert Hall "Kitara". During this residency, he played in concert halls such as Art Tower Mito, Sumida Triphony Hall and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He has performed with renowned conductors and soloists such as Matthias Bamert, Simon Gaudenz, Rainer Küchl, Max Pommer, Shuntaro Sato and Kanade Yokoyama, and orchestras such as the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra and the Northwest German Philharmonic Orchestra.
From 2018 to 2021, Gregorius worked as a church musician in the "Outstanding Lighthouse Position" in the Archdiocese of Paderborn and as a cantor at St. Pancratius Church in Gütersloh. In November 2021, he was appointed church musician and basilica organist at the Basilica of St. Jakob in Straubing.
He has been a lecturer in organ and improvisation at the Regensburg University of Catholic Church Music and Music Education since 2020[2] and a lecturer in liturgical organ playing and organ improvisation at the Munich University of Music and Drama since 2023[3].