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The German organist and harpsichordist and conductor, Johannes Skudlik, earned the General Certificate of Education, before attending the Munich University of Music studying liturgical music and concert organ with Gerhard Weinberger and Franz Lehrndorfer.
Since 1979 Johannes Skudlik has been titular organist at the central church Mariä Himmelfahrt in Landsberg/Lech (Bavaria). He founded and directs the Landsberg Oratorio Choir, several chamber choirs and the Con-brio Chamber Orchestra of Munich. With his ensembles, he performed the famous masses written by Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner and Puccini, Bach's Mass in B minor (BWV 232) and the St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244), the Requiems of Mozart, Verdi and Brahms as well as oratorios composed by Händel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Dvorak and others. During these performances, soloists have included Marga Schiml, Monica Pick-Hieronimi, Julie Kaufmann, Peter Schreier, Hermann Prey, Aldo Baldin, Harald Stamm, Roberto Sacca, Cornelia Kallisch and Peter Lika.
As an orchestra conductor, Johannes Skudlik performed some of Mozart’s (Jupiter, Prague etc.) Beethoven’s (2nd, 9th) and Bruckner's (7th) symphonies in co-operation with members of the Bavarian Broadcasting Symphonic Orchestra. With his choirs and his orchestra he has toured for concerts and festivals in Greece, Spain, Italy and France.
As an organist and harpsichordist Johannes Skudlik has given concerts in almost every country in Europe, in the USA and in the Far East, in the great concert halls of Tokyo, St. Petersburg, Breslau, Boston (Harvard University) and the Tonhalle of Zürich, as well as in the Philharmonies of Munich and Hong Kong. He has been a guest performer in the cathedrals of Cologne, Munich, Sevilla, Bourges, Trier, Hamburg, Chester, Salamanca, Lausanne and Warsaw, in New York´s St. Bartholomew's and in Paris' Ste. Clothilde. Several times he has been invited to the festivals of Verona, Zürich and Copenhagen. In 2000 he made his debut as a conductor in the Munich Philharmonie am Gasteig.
In the meantime more than 20 CD-recordings of harpsichord,organ or chamber music are available on the label Ambitus. In 1989 Verdi’s Requiem and Mendelssohn’s Elijah were recorded by the Landsberg Oratorio Choir and members of the Munich Symphonic Orchestras. He has recorded radio productions in co-operation with the networks RIAS Berlin, WGBH Radio Boston, RAI uno, Polish Television and the Bavarian Broadcasting. |
