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Jürgen Budday
Conductor & Music Director
 Jürgen Budday (born 1948) is conductor, director of church music, music teacher and artistic director of the concert series at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Maulbronn Abbey.
He started teaching at the Evangelical Seminar in Maulbronn in 1979. This also involved his taking over as artistic director of the Maulbronn Monastery Concerts and the cantor choir. He studied church music and musicology at the Academy of Music in Stuttgart from 1967 to 1974. In 1992, he was named Director of Studies, in 1995 came the appointment as Director of Church Music and in 1998 he was awarded the "Bundesverdienstkreuz" (German Cross of Merit) as well as the Bruno-Frey Prize from the State Academy in Ochsenhausen for his work in music education. In 1983 Jürgen Budday founded the Maulbronn Chamber Choir ("Maulbronner Kammerchor"), with whom he won numerous national and international awards. At the Prague International Choir Festival, for example, Jürgen Budday received an award as best director. Since 2002 he has also held the chair of the Choral Committee with the German Music Council.
For his achievements as a conductor, as educator and as musical ambassador of the country, Jürgen Budday was honoured in 2011 with the honorary title "Professor".
Jürgen Budday has started a cycle of Handel oratorios that is planned to span several years, which involves working with soloists like Emma Kirkby, Miriam Allan, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta and Mark Le Brocq (to name but a few). The live recordings of these performances, that have received the highest praise from reviewers, has won him international recognition. Till these days 10 oratorios by G.F.Handel are documented on discs.
"No conductor and no choir have so consistently recorded so many Handel oratorios as Jürgen Budday and his Maulbronn Chamber Choir" (Dr. Karl Georg Berg, Handel Memoranda Halle 2008).
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The Power of Handel
George Frideric Handel ~ Best of his glorious English Oratorios
Outstanding Extracts with Soloists, Choir & Orchestra from the Oratorios
Jephtha, Samson, Judas Maccabaeus, Saul, Belshazzar, Solomon, Messiah, Joshua
Performances according to the traditions of the time with
the Maulbronn Chamber Choir &soloists such as Miriam Allan,
Nancy Argenta, Catherine King, Sinéad Pratschke, Melinda Paulsen,
Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Charles Humphries,
Christopher Purves, James Rutherford, Stephen Varcoe a.o.
Conductor: Jürgen Budday |
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