Reinhard Pikora: Diabelli Contest 2016

Reinhard Pikora Born 1949 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany, as a child received violin and accordion lessons; experience with orchestra and chamber music as well as instruction in composition; additional instruments: guitar, viola, piano and double bass; state examination in teaching, theological examination, adjunct professor at the teacher training college in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. From 1982 – 2012 minister at the Evangelical-Lutheran Gospel Parish ''St. Bonifatius'' in Hamburg-Barmbek, Germany; establishment of gospel choirs, active as freelance musician and composer with emphasis on gospel services and the linking of gospel and religious services.
The uniqueness of gospel services is the clear participation of the community with the goal of lively dialogical gospel services for people of today. Numerous publications by the Strube-Verlag (German publishing house)-Munich, in 2007, development of the internet platform www.gospel-hamburg.net for gospel events in and around Hamburg, Germany.
Founding member of the work group ''Gospel in the Church'' in 2009. In 2012, development of the project ''Gospel Services on Tour'' together with the creative church. Historical musicology studies from 2012-2016.
Works:
Arrangmements of spirituals, 10 gospel services, including 2 childrens' gospel services, 60 gospel canons for the ecclasiastical year, childrens' songs for family worship services, gospel songs for religious celebrations and feasts, chamber music, liturgical religious services, Requiem gospel, 20 songs and canons on the ''Pearl of Faith'', Christmas gospel oratory ''Gospel Christmas'', songs for ''My Gospel Song Book'', new classic oratorio ''Joseph from Nazareth'' – ''A Man Accomplished Something in Spite of Himself'', liturgical songs for ''Glory to God'' in the Verlag Stephan Zebe.