Horst Buchholz
Organ faculty
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Biography

Dr. Horst Buchholz is Director of Sacred Music and Principal Organist at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. He has won international acclaim as conductor, concert organist, scholar, and educator. Currently, he is Music Director and Conductor of the Centennial Philharmonic Orchestra in Denver . While being in Colorado , he has served as Associate Conductor with Opera Colorado and as Music Director of Denver 's Young Artists Orchestra. He is also professor of church music at St. John Vianney Seminary, an affiliate of the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.

Horst Buchholz received his early musical training in a boys choir in his native Germany and started conducting at age 16. When he was 21 years old, he had his Berlin Philharmonic debut as organ soloist, and shortly thereafter he founded the Berlin Chamber Orchestra. Dr. Buchholz holds two terminal degrees, one in Church Music from the University of Arts in Berlin , and one in Orchestral Conducting from Indiana University in Bloomington . His organ teachers were Heinz Lohmann, Peter Wackwitz, and Rudolf Heinemann. As an assistant with the Berlin Philharmonic Chorus he had the opportunity to work with and learn from such eminent maestros as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, and Herbert von Karajan.

Horst Buchholz has been an active as a conductor, organist, and lecturer in the United States, Japan, Korea, Mexico, and throughout Europe . He has performed on some of the most famous organs in the world. He was a guest conductor with the Boulder Philharmonic, the Colorado Symphony, the Sinfonia of Colorado, Central City Opera, the Akron Symphony, and other orchestras. He performed in some of the world's most prestigious concert halls, as well as for e United Nations in Vienna. He appeared on German National Television, the Korean TV, National Public Radio, the American AFN, and the British BBC. In the summer of 2000 Dr. Buchholz had his conducting debut in Salzburg during the International Summer Festival and has returned to Salzburg annually as conductor and organist. Future engagements include organ solo recitals at the Cathedrals of Berlin and Passa, Germany, as well as at the Winspear Center in Edmonton, Canada.

In September 2003, Dr. Buchholz joined the Lamont School of Music of the University of Denver as organ faculty and curator of the William K. Coors organ.