METHUEN MEMORIAL MUSIC HALL
RUDOLF INNIG
Bielefeld, Germany
Wednesday, July 16, 2014, 8:00 P.M.
Sponsored by Edward S. and Susie W. Rowland
Tickets available at the doors (open at 7:30 P.M.): Adults: $12, Children: $5
Works by Handel, Bach, Mendelssohn, Wagner and Gershwin
Rudolf Innig studied piano, organ, church music, music education and musicology in Detmold and Cologne, Germany and in Paris. His teachers have included Hans Martin Theopold and Friedrich Wilhelm Schnurr (piano), Gaston Litaize and Michael Schneider (organ) and Arno Forchert (musicology). He was the recipient of a fellowship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and a prizewinner in various competitions in organ. Recitals, broadcasts and recordings have taken him to most of the European countries and to North America, Russia, Japan and Korea. His numerous recordings; including the complete organ works of Johannes Brahms, Franz Lachner, Felix Mendelssohn, Felix Nowowiejski, Robert Schumann and Olivier Messiaen; have been awarded several prizes such as the German Record Critics, Cannes-Classical-Award with the Musica Alta Ripa Ensemble, and Echo-Klassik. His recording of the complete organ works of Josef Gabriel Rheinberger on historical instruments in Southern Germany and Switzerland
has been available on twelve compact discs since 2005. He has served as the director of the Coesfeld Music School,
organist at the local Lutheran Marktkirche and a faculty member at the Detmold College of Music. Since 2011, he has
performed as a concert organist based in Bielefeld, Germany.192 Broadway (Route 28), Methuen www.mmmh.org