Martin Lutz

Martin Lutz (born 19 May 1950) is a German musicologist, conductor and harpsichordist. He was the musical director of the concert choir Schiersteiner Kantorei in Wiesbaden from 1972 to 2017, and founded the biennial festival Wiesbadener Bachwochen in 1975.

Biography Lutz studied church music and musicology at the Evangelisches Kirchenmusikalisches Institut Heidelberg, and art history and ancient history at the University of Mainz.

He has been active since 1972 as a cantor of the Christophoruskirche (St. Christopher Church) in Wiesbaden-Schierstein. He has been the conductor of the Schiersteiner Kantorei, a choir of then about 40 singers, which he shaped to one of the largest concert choirs in Hesse. He continued the series Schiersteiner Vespermusik at the Christophoruskirche, vespers music started by his predecessor, as a forum for early music in Wiesbaden. More than 400 concerts took place as of 2011. In 1975, Lutz founded the festival Wiesbadener Bachwochen, and in 1994, the Musikherbst Wiesbaden.

Since 2004, he is part of a project to perform all Bach sacred cantatas in monthly services, introduced by a lecture. The services are held at both the Marktkirche and the Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt, in a collaboration with the Kantorei St. Katharinen and the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt.

For his artistic work, he was awarded the Public Service Medal of the City of Wiesbaden Silver (1987) and in Gold (1997), the Culture Prize of the City of Wiesbaden (1990, together with the Schiersteiner Kantorei) and the Goethe-Plakette des Landes Hessen (Goethe Medal of the State of Hesse) in 2007.