BITSCH, Jutta

Jutta Bitsch studied church music in Mainz from 1989 to 1993, specializing in improvisation, and graduated with the "A-Examen" (the highest qualification for church musicians in Germany). While there, she also undertook composition studies under Prof. Martin Kürschner. Her first composition—a cantata—was publicly performed in 1993. Subsequently, she pursued composition studies in Saarbrücken under Prof. Theo Brandmüller.

She was a scholarship recipient of Villa Musica. In 1999, she won both the second prize and the audience award at the European Church Music Festival. She served as an instructor for music theory, ear training, and improvisation at the Mainz University of Music and within the Diocese of Mainz's church music training program.