Secrets Of Organ Playing Podcast

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast episode 528! Today's guest is a German organist Martin Sander who is an internationally renowned concert soloist and professor of organ at the Hochschule für Musik (University of Music) Detmold as well as at the University of Music in Basel. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover with Ulrich Bremsteller, organ, and Gerrit Zitterbart, piano and received his "Konzertexamen" degree in 1994. Master classes with Harald Vogel, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Flor Peeters, Daniel Roth and other renowned teachers completed his musical education. After having won one of the highest national awards, the Mendelssohn Prize in Berlin (1986), he succeeded in winning three of the most important international organ competitions: the International competition of the ARD in Munich (1987, 2nd Prize; a First Prize was not awarded), the International J.S. Bach Competition in Leipzig (1988, First Prize and Special Prize), and the organ competition of Prague Spring Fe