Oliver Kluge

Oliver Kluge was born in Berlin in 1969 and completed his musical education at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater at Hanover with Ulrich Bremsteller and Lajos Rovatkay (organ), and with Christopher Oakden (piano). Master classes and lessons with Arvid Gast, Harald Vogel, Gerd Zacher, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt complemented his education. He received additional artistic ideas from Gustav Leonhardt. He held the post of cantor and organist at the Stadtkirche Bad Pyrmont between 1997 and 2010, and has additionally been the main organist at the Konzerthaus Bad Pyrmont since 2003. In 2010, he was appointed cantor and organist at Hanover’s southern city parish, the Südstadtgemeinde Hannover, and as cantor for the central Hanover region. Kluge is an active concert organist and has performed, amongst others, at the Bamberg Cathedral, the Ulm Minster, the Hofkirche Dresden, and the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche Berlin; his repertoire focusses in particular on music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Franz Liszt, and on works from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In addition to his work as a composer, he has released several recordings as an organist and director. He has contributed to the Lexikon der Orgel (published by the Laaber-Verlag), has written numerous specialist articles, and has edited compositions for the Zimmermann-Verlag.