Christoph Bull has been appointed organist-in-residence at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles. He presented a solo organ concert there December 8. Formerly principal organist (2007–2013) at First United Methodist Church in Santa Monica, Bull has presented a Baroque-to-Jazz program at Ascension Lutheran Church in Thousand Oaks with trumpet virtuoso Jens Lindemann, and joined conductor James Conlon, the Colburn Orchestra and others for performances of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. His summer activities included organ concerts at the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, and the International Organ Festival in Düsseldorf, Germany, and recording with in his hometown, Mannheim.
Future performances include: February 7, Northridge United Methodist Church; 2/21, Christoph Bull & Norton Wisdom, First Congregational Church, Long Beach; 2/28, Modesto First Christian Reformed Church. For information: www.christophbull.com.
Bull’s son Maximilian Adrian Sebastian Bull, now over eight months old, enjoys music, including Glenn Gould’s interpretation of the Well-Tempered Clavier, Wings’ Red Rose Speedway, and 70s disco.
