Martin Neu

Biography

Martin Neu studied at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart, at Concordia University Montréal, Canada, and at the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz. His organ teachers included Werner Jacob, Bernard Lagacé, Bernhard Haas and Gerhard Gnann. During his studies in Canada, he also attended music theory courses with Bengt Hambraeus at McGill University in Montréal.
As an organist, Neu has won numerous scholarships and awards (including DAAD [German Academic Exchange Service], Bachwoche Ansbach, Stiftung
Podium Junger Künstler, Encouragement prize at International Bach Competition, Leipzig 2000). In 1993 he was admitted into the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and in 2002 the University of Mainz awarded him the Johannes-Gutenberg Prize for outstanding artistic achievements.
Since 2001 Martin Neu is a church musician at St Peter and St Paul with St Elisabeth in Reutlingen and as deanery church musician he is also responsible for the church music in the deanery of Reutlingen / Zwiefalten. Invitations to concerts and jury duties take him to Germany and abroad (including the Treviso Organ Festival, Rapallo Musica, Academia de Órgano Cuenca, Concorso Brazzale Vicenza, Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz, Max-Reger-Tage Wiesbaden, Krummhörner Orgelfrühling, and the Festival Suisse de l’Orgue). Among others, he also worked with the Kunsthalle of the Hypo Cultural Foundation in Munich, the Goethe-Institut Genoa, SWR and ZDF.
Radio and CD recordings, that have received international recognition (including the Longlist of the German Record Critics’ Award, Early Music Review, American Record Guide, Gramophone), document Martin Neu’s interest in making music on historical instruments.