Education
Elke Voelker studied organ, church music, German and Roman languages and musicology at the universities of Mannheim, Mainz and Heidelberg.
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A scholarship allowed her to study abroad with Wolfgang Rübsam (Chicago), Nicholas Kynaston (London), Michelle Leclerc (Schola Cantorum, Paris), Jean Guillou and Daniel Roth. 1996-2008 Voelker worked as Choir Organist and Cathedral Music Assosiate at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Heritage Saint Marys Imperial Cathedral of Speyer. 2009 she was nominated Interims Music Director and Cathedral Organist.
Voelker maintains an activ international concert schedule and teaching career.
Prizes and 1995: First Prize and Audience Prize "International Organ Competition Speyer Cathedral".
Achievements
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1995: First Prize and Audience Prize "International Organ Competition Speyer Cathedral" 1999: Finalist at the "Concours International d"Orgue de la Ville de Paris". Medaille de la Ville de Paris. 2001: Scholar of the Rotary International Foundation 2002: Third Prize "International Organ Competition Erfurt" 2003 und 2004: Diapason Awards 5 for her recordings Karg-Elert Volume(s).2 and Volume(s).3 2007: Répertoire 9 for Karg-Elert Volume(s).5. Paul Harris Fellow Medal of Rotary International.
Membership
She is member of the English Karg-Elert Archive, of the German Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde (GdO), the American Guild of Organists and Honorary Member of the Associazione Organistica Siciliana.
