Abschlusskonzert Moabiter Orgelspiele 2024

In the organizer's words:

Organ concert with church music director Manuel Gera

Bach and improvisations

Gera studied Protestant church music at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. He passed his A examination there in 1991. His teachers included Hartmut Schmidt (choir conducting), Hans-Dieter Möller (organ) and Gustav Adolf Krieg(organ improvisation). After postgraduate studies at the Saarland University of Music with Daniel Roth and Theo Brandmüller, he completedhis concert exam in organ improvisation in 1995. Also in 1995, he was awarded third prize at the International Competition for Organ Improvisation in Schwäbisch Gmünd.

After working as a cantor in Oberhausen and Soest, he was appointed to the Michaeliskirche in Hamburg in 2001. He worked there as organist and choirmaster until 2021. In 2006, he was appointed church music directorby the church leadership of the North Elbian Church. On May 1, 2021, he took up the position of district cantor in Jüterbog, south of Berlin.

The focus of his organistic work is organ improvisation. Together with his wife Anne-Katrin Gera, he organizes organ concerts for children.

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