Biografie 
Roland Maria Stangier
Studied in Wuerzburg and Paris by Zsolt Gárdonyi and Daniel Roth from 1977-85.
The original organist distributed by the Berlin "Air corridor memorial fonds-stipendium" in Paris and Strasbourg by Daniel Roth and André Fleury.
1982-83 District Choirmaster and Organist in Schopfheim / Baden, 83-91 at the St. Mathews Church Berlin Steglitz and at the St. Peters cathedral in Hamburg chief-organist and conductor of the Bach Choir 1991-95.
Main organist at the reformed city church at Solothurn, Switzerland 1997-99.
Lecturer at the Bremen Arts academy and the metropolitan church music school Berlin 1983-91.
Initiator and leader of the international improvisation competition "Maurice Duruflé" Hamburg 1996.
Since 1994 professor at the "Folkwang University" Essen.
Since 2003 custodian of the new Kuhn-organ of the new Essen Philharmonic and
since 2009 one of the custodians of the new Eule-organ of the Philharmonie Mercatorhalle Duisburg.
Since 2010 principal organist of the Kreuzeskirche Essen.
Prize winner of three competitions "Kurhessen Waldeck", "Bayreuth" and "Montbrison"
Many CD recordings, worldwide recitals