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Friedhelm Flamme studied Music Education, Sacred Music, Organ, Conducting, Musicology, Composing and Theology at Detmold Academy of Music and Paderborn University. He achieved the highest German academic degree in Sacred Music („A-Examen“), won an accolade for outstanding performance with his artist diploma concert and was awarded a PhD for his thesis on pianist and composer Friedrich Gulda.

He has worked as a Director of Sacred Music and teacher of music at Paul Gerhard High School in Dassel/Germany since 1991 and teaches organ and continuo at Detmold Academy of Music. He is also a successful composer and arranger.

In 2004, his recording of the complete organ works of Maurice Duruflé was awarded the Internet Classical Award. His recording of the Complete Organ Works of Dietrich Buxtehude (Vol. 1) was nominated for a renowned German music critics’ prize, the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik in 2020. In 2018, his alma mater, Detmold Academy of Music, appointed him as honorary professor, thus honoring his merits as an artist and academic teacher.

As an organ virtuoso, Flamme is a welcome guest at cathedrals and historic organs all over the world. He is also the Artistic Director of the international organ festival Vox Organi, the biggest organ festival in Germany and the only one that took place live and in front of a real audience for three consecutive months in 2020 and 2021.

Programme

Prelude in d
Vincent Lubeck (1654 - 1740)

Vater unser im Himmelreich BuxWV 219
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637 - 1707)

Fantasia (Concerto) in G BWV 571
(Allegro - Adagio - Allegro)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)

Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr Krebs- WV 526
Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713 - 1780)

Fantasia in d Flack 19
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710 - 1784)

Passacaglia in E “ Sonnenhymnus” (Hymn to the Sun)
Max Drischner (1891 - 1971)