Bernhard Sieberer

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Bernhard Sieberer

Bernhard Sieberer (born January 12, 1963 in St. Johann in Tirol ) is an Austrian choir director and conductor .

Life

Bernhard Sieberer studied conducting at the Conservatory of Innsbruck with Edgar Seipenbusch and completed masterclasses with Sergiu Celibidache in Mainz, as part of a scholarship from the Alban Berg Foundation in Vienna with Michael Gielen at the Mozarteum Salzburg and with Gustav Kuhn in Milan. 1986 to 1992 he was the musical director of the European summer in Fiecht. Since 1988 he has been teaching conducting, percussion technique and choir conducting in choir conducting courses and in seminars, including as assistant to Gustav Kuhn for the field of symphonic music, and has repeatedly led the two-year choir conducting seminar of the Tyrolean Choir Association. From 2008 to 2010 he taught in Egypt and was responsible for sustainable musical development at the Sekem Initiative and at the Heliopolis Academy in Cairo. He was a permanent guest conductor with the Jauna Muzika Chamber Choir in Vilnius and has been the City of Kufstein's cultural representative since 1993 . Since 2015 he has been in charge of a choir broadcast on ORF Radio Tirol.

Artistic activity

Choirmaster

1990 to 2008 and since 2011 director of the chamber choir Collegium Vocale Innsbruck.
since 1991 permanent leader of the vocal ensemble Vocapella Innsbruck.
since 2012 director of the Diversity Choir, an Innsbruck amateur choir dedicated to the idea of ​​integration.
2015 foundation and direction of the Innsbruck Youth Choir (JUKO).

Drama and theater

In 1992 he was responsible for the rehearsal of the theater music at the Volksschauspiele Telfs , from 1995 to 2001 he conducted the incidental music by Werner Pirchner to Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Jedermann" at the Salzburg Domplatz at the Salzburg Festival . In 1997 he conducted the world premiere of Werner Pirchner's "Shalom - Chorale for String Orchestra" at the Steirischer Herbst . In 2013 he was musical director of the Erl Passion Play .

conductor

After his debut in 1990 in the Wiener Konzerthaus and in the Brucknerhaus Linz with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra , he worked with a large number of international choirs and orchestras and performed, among other things, at the Styrian Autumn, the Salzburg Festival , the Slovak Philharmonic , the Festival of Early Music and the Tyrolean Festival Festival Erl . This work is documented in numerous CD publications as well as radio and television recordings for national and international radio and television companies. This also resulted in two recordings with contemporary Tyrolean music: the CD "strings" with all works for string orchestra by Werner Pirchner and the CD "Totentanz" with music by Maria Hofer .

Together with the Slovak Chamber Orchestra Cappella Istropolitana , a series of sound carriers with very well-known compositions, which are “... disassembled, discussed, reassembled, made music ...” under the title “… in conversation” are created and created in order to better understand and listen to them more intensively to convey often played pieces of music. Works by Mozart and Beethoven “in conversation” have appeared, Haydn , Schubert , Mendelssohn and a selection of the music of the 20th century are in the works.

repertoire

Bernhard Sieberer's repertoire is broad: it includes choral works from the Renaissance to the 20th and 21st centuries, works for orchestra from Bach to Bruckner , from Mozart to Mahler , from Beethoven to Britten and from Purcell to Pirchner. A special focus is on choral orchestral works by Monteverdi and Schütz and ranges from the great baroque, classical and romantic oratorios and passions by Handel , Bach, Haydn, Mendelssohn and Brahms to Bruckner , Orff and Honegger to contemporary music.

Discography (selection)

  • Werner Pirchner - strings (Cappella Istropolitana, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Camerata St. Petersburg), ORF 2002
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - bassoon concerto, oboe concerto, clarinet concerto (Richard Galler, Dominik Wollenweber, Wenzel Fuchs, Cappella Istropolitana), RCR 2006
  • Maria Hofer - Totentanz (Art of Brass, Hans Gansch , Andreas Öttl, Peter Sadlo and others, Cappella Istropolitana), RCR 2007
  • Conversation with Mozart - Divertimenti in D major and F major, A Little Night Music, Piano Concerto No. 11 in F major (Carlo Grante, Cappella Istropolitana), RCR 2008
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concertos No. 10, 14 and 23 (Carlo Grante, Barbara Panzanella, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma), Music & Arts 2008
  • Conversation with Beethoven - Symphony No. 7, Overture to Egmont (Cappella Istropolitana), RCR 2010

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Sieberer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kufsteiner Bezirksblatt, 2011 ; accessed April 30, 2016
  2. ↑ Choral broadcast Radio Tirol ; accessed Dec. 5, 2016
  3. ↑ Collegium Vocale ; accessed on April 30, 2016
  4. ↑ Chamber Choir Vocapella ; accessed on April 30, 2016
  5. ↑ Choir of Diversity ; accessed on April 30, 2016
  6. ↑ Innsbruck Youth Choir ; accessed on April 30, 2016
  7. ↑ Press release on Hoffmannsthal's Jedermann 2012 ; accessed on April 30, 2016
  8. ↑ Pirchner Werkverzeichnis PWV85c ; accessed on April 30, 2016
  9. ↑ Portfolio of the Passion Play Erl 2013 ; accessed on April 30, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Sieberer, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian choir director and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Johann in Tirol