Winner of the Eric Ericson Award 2024

Alexander Lüken is assistant to the Cologne Radio Choir, artistic director of the Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke and the award-winning Junger Kammerchor Köln, which he founded. He works regularly with ChorWerk Ruhr and conductors such as Kent Nagano, Àdàm Fischer, Iván Fischer and George Benjamin. He has also worked with the RIAS Kammerchor, Det Norske Solistkor, the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra and the AUDI Youth Choir Academy, among others. He has appeared as a guest singer with various independent and radio ensembles.

In the broad spectrum of his work, his focus is on complex new and rarely performed music. He is currently conducting the first recording of the "Christ Trilogy" by Mendelssohn's contemporary Friedrich Schneider, which was rediscovered after more than 150 years without performance and the first part of which was nominated in two categories for the Opus Klassik.

Alexander Lüken studied choral and orchestral conducting with Marcus Creed, Jürgen Puschbeck and Ekhart Wycik at the Cologne and Weimar Universities of Music, as well as Latin at the University of Cologne. His training was supplemented by courses with Florian Helgath, Grete Pedersen, Volker Hempfling and others. He is an alumnus of the Cusanuswerk.