ORGEL•PUNKT 12 at the Münster: Summertime & Magnificat

MAGNIFICAT! — Marian chants in Münster’s millennial acoustic space, ranging from Gregorian chant to Mozart and Italian bel canto. Internationally award-winning soprano Gudrun Sidonie Otto and Münster organist Andreas Liebig perform works by, among others, Frescobaldi (Magnificat), Buxtehude (Toccata in G), Bach (“My Soul Exalts the Lord”), Bellini (“Salve Regina”), Saint-Saëns, Fauré (“Ave Maria”), and Gershwin (“Summertime”). The grand, festive finale is the coloratura aria “Laudamus te” from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Mass in C minor.

GUDRUN SIDONIE OTTO captivates audiences with her “bright, feminine, noble timbre” (FonoForum) and “her fresh yet warm soprano” (Opernglas). In 2019, the BAZ ran the headline “Queen of David!” regarding her performance in Honegger’s *Roi David* “Queen David!” After coaching with Ricarda Merbeth, she studied voice with Mario Hoff as well as with Klesie Kelly, Renate Biskup, Mira Zakai, and Stefan Haselhoff, among others. In 2004, she received a scholarship from the Komische Oper Berlin. Until 2007, she was a soloist with the Landesbühnen Sachsen. In 2007, she won first prize at the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg. Guest appearances include the Komische Oper Berlin, the Staatsoper Hannover, the Staatstheater Nürnberg, the Theater Würzburg, the Théâtre de Picardie, the Grand Opera Luxembourg, Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg, and other major international festivals and concert halls. She has participated in master classes in South Tyrol, Hong Kong, Norway, Granada, and Sofia. In 2019, she earned a “Master of Theology” degree from the University of Basel. Since 2020, she has also served as a pastor in Binningen-Bottmingen. Numerous radio and TV recordings and highly acclaimed CDs featuring Telemann (cpo) and Mendelssohn. In 2025, two highly acclaimed solo CDs (Arcantus)—*Nostalgia* (Dvořák) and *De profundis* (Nono, Gubaidulina, and Manekke)—were longlisted for the German Record Critics’ Award.

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ANDREAS LIEBIG (born in 1962 in Gütersloh, Westphalia) has been the Münster Organist in Basel since 2014. After teaching at the conservatories in Lübeck and Oslo, he also headed the organ class at the Tyrolean State Conservatory in Innsbruck from 2013 to 2015. Since 2018, he has been teaching at the Freiburg University of Music. In 1988, he won first prizes at the international organ competitions in Dublin and Odense. After studying church music in Herford, Liebig majored in organ, piano, and music theory in Stuttgart from 1983 to 1989, studying under Ludger Lohmann, Adu Frederica Faiss, and Helmut Lachenmann, among others. He continued his studies in Cologne, Paris, Vienna, Lübeck, and Freiburg with Michael Schneider, Daniel Roth, Hans and Martin Haselböck, Zsigmond Szathmáry, and with Sergiu Celibidache in Mainz. He has served as cantor and organist in Denmark, Norway, and Switzerland. Director of successful festivals and concert series, including the East Westphalian Organ Days (1992), the Lübeck Brahms Festival (1992), the Krummhörner Organ Spring (2001–2011), the International Summer Concerts in Dornum (Holy organ, 1710–11) and the Marienhafe Organ Summer (Holy organ, 1710–1713). Active concert career, CD, radio, and TV recordings, as well as master classes in Europe, North and South America, and Asia, with a wide-ranging repertoire from the Robertsbridge Codex to the avant-garde. Highly acclaimed Bach recordings on the historic organs in Groningen, Trondheim, Oelinghausen, and Dornum. Jury member for international competitions.

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