About
Jörg-Andreas Bötticher is a German harpsichordist, Organist and musicologist.
After several years of music teaching and experience as a Keyboarder of a Band in his youth, Jörg-Andreas Bötticher studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Jean-Claude Zehnder (organ) and Andreas Staier (harpsichord). Afterwards, general bass studies followed at Jesper Christensen. Since 1997 he runs a harpsichord class at the Schola Cantorum, and teaches Historical performance practice at the Basel Academy of music.
He is Organist of the predigerkirche in Basel, there is also a co-initiator and artistic Director of the total performance of all Bach cantatas (2004-2012), as well as the "evening music in the preacher's Church" (2013 FF.). On several CD recordings there are works by Alessandro Poglietti, Michelangelo Rossi, Gottlieb Muffat, Ignazio Albertini, Johann Friedrich Fasch and others. With the Baroque violinist Hélène Schmitt, he devoted himself to the violin repertoire of the 17th century. Century, with Chiara Banchini, he played the sonatas for violin and Cembalo obligato, by Johann Sebastian Bach. Since 2011, he performs regularly with the Baroque violinist Plamena Nikitassova.
Bötticher is also active in the field of musicology. Among the most important publications contributions in the Bach-Jahrbuch of the New Bach society and the article in General bass in the music encyclopedia Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (together with Jesper Christensen).