Julian Emanuel Becker
- Organ
Julian Emanuel Becker was born in Hanover in 2005 and was accepted as a young student at the am Institut zur Frühförderung musikalisch Hochbegabter (IFF) an der Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover at the age of seven.
In 2023, Becker became the youngest prize winner at the 32rd St. Albans International Organ Competition. The following year, he won first prize in the organ category at the XXIV. International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig – again as the youngest participant. In 2025, he received the Prize at Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, which has been awarded only three times in the organ category since 2001. He is also, among other honors, the recipient of the first-prize at the the International Organ Competition for the Wiesbaden Bach-Prize 2024, the International Organ Improvisation Competition in Weimar and the Grotrian-Steinweg Piano Competition.
Julian Becker is a scholarship recipient of the Deutschen Stiftung Musikleben and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
He is currently studying at the “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” University of Music and Drama in Leipzig with Martin Schmeding (organ), Thomas Lennartz (organ improvisation), and Jacques Ammon (piano). During the 2025–26 academic year, he participated in an Erasmus exchange program at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
He gained further musical inspiration through master classes with Igor Levit, Daniel Roth, Bine Bryndorf, and Michel Bouvard.
His concert appearances have taken him to venues including the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Essen Philharmonie, St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and the Beethovenfest in Bonn. In October 2026, GENUIN will release his debut CD, recorded on the organ at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig.
As a composer and arranger, he has written commissioned works and transcriptions for renowned soloists and ensembles, including Igor Levit.
At the 75th ARD International Music Competition, Julian Emanuel Becker won the third prize in the organ category.
First round
Dietrich Buxtehude, Toccata für Orgel d-Moll, BuxWV 155
Aus Francois Couperin, Tierce en Taille aus Livres d’orgue:
I: Messe à l’usage ordinaire des paroisses pour les
festes solemnelles
Johann Sebastian Bach, Triosonate für Orgel Nr. 5 C-Dur, BWV 529, II. Largo & III. Allegro
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Variations serieuses
d-Moll, op. 54
Valéry Aubertin, Improvisation – Kandinsky 1914. Poème symphonique
Semifinal
Johannes Brahms, Choralvorspiele op. 122 Nr. 11, “O Welt, ich muss dich lassen”
Julius Reubke, Orgelsonate: Der 94. Psalm c-Moll
Enjott Schneider, Das Glasperlenspiel für Orgel solo, Auftragskomposition des ARD Musikwettbewerbs 2026
FINAL
mit dem Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Francis Poulenc, Konzert für Orgel, Streicher und
Pauken g-Moll FP 93 (Ed. Salabert)
Richard Wagner, Ouvertüre zu “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” (Arr. Edwin H. Lemare), WWV 96
