Dresden’s Frauenkirche has completed a gruelling audition of 29 candidates for its vacant organ bench.
The winner was also one of the youngest. Nilkas Jahn comes from Fulda in Hesse. He studied church music, organ improvisation and choir conducting in Mainz and Freiburg.
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