Education
Elke Voelker studied organ, church music, German and Roman languages and musicology at the universities of Mannheim, Mainz and Heidelberg.
Elke Voelker studied organ, church music, German and Roman languages and musicology at the universities of Mannheim, Mainz and Heidelberg.
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".
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.