Education
Later Axel studied Church Music and Conductor in Hamburg, with conductor Klauspeter Seibel and organist Heinz Wunderlich.
Later Axel studied Church Music and Conductor in Hamburg, with conductor Klauspeter Seibel and organist Heinz Wunderlich.
lieutenant is a center of church music, and conductor and organist Neithard Bethke became the beloved teacher of the young Axel. Famous musicians like Peter Hurford or Helen Donath or the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields came to the cathedral, invited by Neithard Bethke. He is also the composer of the musical Ronja Räubertochter (book by Astrid Lindgren), with orchestra and 120 people on-stage, which premiered in 1994 in Poland and Germany.
In 1995/1996 he had a well documented participation in the album The Time of the Oath by the German power metal band Helloween, released in 1996.
In 1998 he was playing a church organist who works in a prison in the German film "Schlange auf dem Altar" (The snake on the altar). In 1994 he was also invited for the first time to Brazil.
After marrying a Brazilian woman he decided to live in Belo Horizonte and Vitoria, in Brazil. In 2001 he started working on social projects in Brazil.
He wrote many compositions and arrangements for the new project
Well known are his "Louva ao Senhor" and "Aquecendo Corações", the Brazilian version of "Let our hearts burn", from his "Aquecendo Corações" Civil Defense. Another focus are translations of classical cantatas and oratorios as the Christmas Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, which had its premiere in Portuguese in 2009 in Brasilia.