Ullrich Böhme

Ullrich Böhme was born in Vogtland in Saxony. His passion for the “King of Instruments“ was awakened by the important Baroque organ in his home town Rothenkirchen, at which he began discharging his duties as organist at the early age of thirteen. He therefore went on to study with Hans Otto at the Kirchenmusikschule Dresden and with Wolfgang Schetelich at the Leipziger Hochschule für Musik from 1972 to 1979 and took his state examination. In the Bach bicentennial year, 1985, Ullrich Böhme was chosen from many other applicants to become organist at St. Thomas in Leipzig. His most important tasks since then have been solo organ playing in the church during services, concerts and motets featuring the St. Thomas’s Boys Choir Leipzig and the performance of the basso-continuo parts in cantatas, oratorios and passions. His regular concert tours have moreover taken him to many European countries, North America and Japan.
It was Ullrich Böhme who initiated the restoration of the large Sauer organ in St. Thomas‘s Church and who designed the new Bach organ (inaugurated in the Bach anniversary year 2000).
Ullrich Böhme teaches at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ Leipzig and holds interpretation courses at home and abroad. He was appointed professor in 1994. He performed the first concert in the most important multimedia project during the Bach year 2000 – ”24 hours Bach“, which was broadcast live by TV stations and over the internet all over the world.