Rainer Oster

Rainer Oster (b. 1966) studied organ at the conservatories in Saarbrücken (with Paul Schneider and Andreas Rothkopf) and Stuttgart (in the soloist class of Jon Laukvik.) In 1992 he was awarded first prize in the Internationaler Johann-Pachelbel-Wettbewerb of the Orgelwoche Nürnberg and in 1993 he was honored with the Bachpreis awarded by the city of Wiesbaden. He is internationally active as a music pedagogue, lecturer and freelance concert organist, as well as performing on the harpsichord and fortepiano. Numerous radio (studio) and live recordings, concerts with various affiliates of the ARD (German public radio) and Radio France as well as CD recordings document his extensive musical activities. Since 2000 Rainer Oster has worked freelance in various capacities for the music department of the Saarländischer Rundfunk, including as a journalist and sound editor. In 1999 and 2007 he substituted for Jon Laukvik at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart. He is currently working on a fundamental organ method. He has recorded, together with the Ensemble Parlando which he founded in 2002, the organ concertos, and sonatas of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach as well as a series of harpsichord concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach.