Frieder Bernius

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Frieder Bernius (2014)

Frieder Bernius (* 1947 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German choir and orchestra conductor .

Live and act

Frieder Bernius was born in 1947 in the Ludwigshafen district of Oppau, the second of four children to a Protestant parish family. He took piano and violin lessons at an early age, sang in the choir of the local parish and in the Evangelical Youth Choir of the Palatinate, and took organ lessons with KMD Karl Kohlmeyer. After graduating from the old-language Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Mannheim, he studied music and musicology at the Stuttgart University of Music and at the University of Tübingen . He attended master classes with u. a. Witold Rowicki , Sergiu Celibidache , Edward Downes and Otmar Suitner .

During his studies he laid the foundation for his freelance work by founding the Stuttgart Chamber Choir at the age of 20. After his focus in the first ten years was mainly on the interpretation of a cappella music, he soon expanded his repertoire to all other genres and styles. Since 1977 Frieder Bernius has also worked with leading orchestras. He also did guest productions with the radio choirs of SDR, NDR, WDR and RIAS Berlin. From the mid-1980s he increasingly turned to historical performance practice .

In 1987, Frieder Bernius initiated the International Festival of Early Music (today: Festival Stuttgart Barock ). In 1991 he also founded the Stuttgart Baroque Orchestra , which specializes in the 18th century and is made up of leading musicians from historical performance practice. The same year also saw the founding of the Stuttgart Classic Philharmonic , which represents the orchestral counterpart to the Stuttgart Chamber Choir for performances of choral symphonic works in large cast.

In 1998 Frieder Bernius received an honorary professorship at the Mannheim University of Music . He regularly gives oratorio courses for singers at the Leopold Mozart Center in Augsburg and the Musikhochschule Würzburg . From 2000 he was the artistic director of ChorWerkRuhr , which he co-founded, and until 2003 belonged to the Ruhr Festival and the Ruhrtriennale . In 2006, Frieder Bernius founded the Hofkapelle Stuttgart, an ensemble dedicated to the repertoire of the early 19th century on historical instruments.

Three years later, Frieder Bernius was elected President of the Johann Nepomuk David Society. He is the chairman and artistic director of the Musik Podiums Stuttgart , a free cultural institution that coordinates and bundles the activities of the conductor and the ensembles Kammerchor Stuttgart , Barockorchester Stuttgart, Hofkapelle Stuttgart and Classic Philharmonie Stuttgart . This also includes the organization of the Stuttgart Barock Festival and the Open Air Schloss Solitude, which has been taking place since 2003 .

Revivals and premieres

Frieder Bernius is characterized by curiosity about unknown scores. Since 1992 he has staged re-performances of 18th century operas. He had works by Johann Adolph Hasse , Jean-Philippe Rameau , Ignaz Holzbauer , Christian Cannabich , Niccolò Jommelli , Johann Gottlieb Naumann , Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda , Justin Heinrich Knecht and Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg printed again from the autographs . Frieder Bernius made first recordings of Zumsteeg's Die Geisterinsel , Jommelli's Il Vologeso and his Didone abbandonata , Schubert's Sacontala , Naumann's Aci e Galatea , Danzi's Bergeist and Knecht's Aeolian harp , whereby Didone was awarded the Gramophone Magazine Editors Choice . Since 1976, contemporary works a. a. by Theodor W. Adorno , Heimo Erbse , Johann Nepomuk David , Karl Michael Komma , Karl Marx , Arthur Dangel, Sofia Gubaidulina , Clytus Gottwald , Paul Frehner, Volker Plangg , Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter , Gerald Bennett , Albrecht Imbescheid, Winfried Toll , David Kosviner , Karl-Heinz Isele, Detlef Dörner, Christian Münch and Charlotte have since premiered.

International activity

Frieder Bernius is invited to master classes, competitions, festivals and guest conducting worldwide. In 1990, 1995, 1999 and 2005 he directed the World Youth Choir of Jeunesses Musicales and IFCM in Scandinavia, Croatia and Canada. At the World Symposium of Choral Music he performed with the Stuttgart Chamber Choir in Vienna (1987), Stockholm (1990), Sydney (1996) and in Seoul (2014).

Regular tours run Frieder Bernius and his ensembles in prestigious concert halls and renowned festivals throughout Europe. He made concert tours outside of Europe with his choir, especially to the Far East (1988, 1996, 2000, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2015), Australia (1996), USA (1989, 1999, 2012), Canada (1992, 1993, 1999 , 2004, 2012) and South America (2010). In 2000 and 2002 he was director of a summer academy in Winnipeg / Canada.

As part of German-Israeli relations, the Stuttgart Chamber Choir has been traveling every two years for a concert tour to the Middle East since 1984 , where it works with orchestras such as the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Israel Symphony Orchestra. In the context of Baden-Württemberg's cultural relations, as Baden-Württemberg's ambassador, he maintains close relationships with orchestras in Toronto as well as the Hungarian Danubia Orchestra Budapest and the Sinfonia Varsovia from Warsaw.

Recordings

In addition to numerous radio productions and live recordings, the following LP and CD releases are available:

  • Albert, Monteverdi, Schütz: Music for Günter Grass ' reading A meeting in Telgte , recorded as part of the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival
  • Bach, C. Ph. E .: The Israelites in the desert
  • Bach, Johann Sebastian / Bach, C. Ph. E .: Easter Oratorio / Thanks to the Lord
  • Bach, Johann Sebastian: Ascension Oratorio / Easter Oratorio | Mass in B minor , BWV 232 | Motets BWV 225-230, BWV nh. 159 (Carus) | Cantatas 206 / 207a | Motets BWV 225-229 (Sony) | St. Matthew Passion | Cantata A solid castle BWV 80, Mass in g BWV 235
  • Brahms, Johannes: Why is the light given | A German Requiem op. 45 | Quartets | Songs and romances
  • Bruckner, Anton: Mass in E minor
  • Burgmüller, Norbert: Piano Concerto | Symphonies No. 1 & 2
  • van Beethoven, Ludwig: Missa in C op. 86 | Missa Solemnis
  • Cherubini, Luigi: Requiem in c
  • Dangel, Arthur: Eve | Violin concerto
  • Danzi, Franz Ignaz: The mountain spirit
  • Fasch, Carl Friedrich Christian: Missa a 16 voci, Domenico Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
  • Handel, Georg Friedrich: Messiah
  • Haydn, Joseph: The seven last words of the Savior | Nelson Mass | Stabat Mater
  • Hasse, Johann Adolph: Atillio Regolo
  • Holzbauer, Ignaz: The death of Dido
  • Homilius, Gottfried August: Motets
  • Jommelli, Niccolò: Didone abbandonata (3 CDs) | Il Vologeso (3 CDs)
  • Kalliwoda, Johann Wenzeslaus: 5th Symphony op. 106, 6th Symphony op. 132 | 1st Symphony op.7, Concertino op.15 for violin (to be released in 2016) | Orchestral works
  • Knecht, Justin Heinrich: The Aeolian harp | Grand symphony
  • Lesur, Fasch, Debussy, Schumann: Hohes Lied
  • Ligeti, György: Lux aeterna (for 10-16 voices) | requiem
  • Mendelssohn, Arnold: German Mass and Motets
  • Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix: Antigone | Oedipus in Kolonos | CD box sacred works | CD box oratorios | CD box drama music | Christ op. 97 (Kirchenw. III) | For he has commanded his angels (Church. V) | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Elias | Lift up your eyes (Kirchenw. VII) | Lord God, we praise you (Church IX) | Hear my request (Kirchenw. I) | Hymn of Praise (Church Works X) | Magnificat (Kirchenw. VIII) | Songs to sing outdoors (to be released in 2016) | Paul | Graciously grant us peace (Ecclesiastical VI) | From the sky high (Kirchenw. II) | How the deer cries (Kirchenw. IV) | Singing songs outdoors | String symphonies No. 7 in D minor, No. 9 in C major and No. 12 in G minor | Shout for joy to the Lord of the world
  • Monteverdi, Claudio: Selva Morale e Spirituale | Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610)
  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Requiem | Mass in c KV 427
  • Naumann, Johann Gottlieb: Aci e Galatea (2CDs)
  • Nicolai, Otto: Lord, I trust you
  • Reger, Max: Three Motets Op. 110 | Choirs op. 6, women's choirs op.111b, choir cant.
  • Rheinberger, Joseph Gabriel: Missa in E flat major ( Cantus Missae ) op.109
  • Reicha, Antonin: Lenora
  • Schönberg, Arnold / Strauss, Richard: Transfigured Night / Metamorphoses
  • Schubert, Franz: Lazarus | Sakontala | Mass in E flat major | Choirs with piano
  • Schubert, Beethoven, Hartmann: with the Bozen String Academy
  • Schütz, Heinrich: Psalms of David | Christmas history and Easter history | Symphoniae Sacrae III
  • Spohr, Louis: The Last Things , oratorio | Mass op.54, Psalms op.85
  • Zelenka, Jan Dismas: Missa dei Patris | Missa Votiva | Missa dei Filii | Missa Omnium Sanctorum | Missa Sancti Josephi
  • Zumsteeg, Johann Rudolph: Die Geisterinsel (3 CDs)

Excellent recordings

Edison Award

Diapason d'or

  • 1994: Heinrich Schütz, Psalmen Davids SWV 22-47. Chamber Choir Stuttgart, Musica Fiata Cologne.
  • 2002: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Requiem . Chamber Choir Stuttgart, Baroque Orchestra Stuttgart.
  • 2002: Jan Dismas Zelenka, Missa Dei Patris . Chamber Choir Stuttgart, Baroque Orchestra Stuttgart.
  • 2003: Johannes Brahms , Why is the light given . Chamber Choir Stuttgart.
  • 2009: Franz Schubert , Sakontala . Chamber Choir Stuttgart, The German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen.
  • Norbert Burgmüller , Symphonies 1 & 2. Stuttgart Court Orchestra.
  • 2010: Jan Dismas Zelenka, Missa Votiva . Chamber Choir Stuttgart, Baroque Orchestra Stuttgart.
  • 2012: Justin Heinrich Knecht , Grande Symphonie . Hofkapelle Stuttgart.
  • 2013: Johann Sebastian Bach, motets . Chamber Choir Stuttgart.
  • 2014: Norbert Burgmüller, Piano Concerto Op. 1, Entr'actes Op. 17. Hofkapelle Stuttgart.

Diapason d'or de l'année

  • 2003: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem . Chamber Choir Stuttgart, Baroque Orchestra Stuttgart.

German Record Critics' Prize

  • Best list 1983 - For Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Hör mein Bitten (Church Works I). Chamber Choir Stuttgart. Ensemble '76 Stuttgart.
  • Best list 1986 - For Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Vom Himmel hoch (Church Works II). Chamber Choir Stuttgart, Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn.
  • Best list 1989 - For Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger , Missa in E flat major op.109 . Chamber Choir Stuttgart, Ensemble '76 Stuttgart.
  • Best list 1996 - For Franz Schubert Mass No. 6 in E flat major D950 . Chamber Choir Stuttgart, Due German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen.
  • Best list 1997 - For Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, because he commanded his angels (Church Works V). Chamber Choir Stuttgart, Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn.
  • Best list 1998 - For Johannes Brahms, songs, romances and chants. Chamber Choir Stuttgart.
  • Best list 1992 - For Anton Bruckner , Mass No. 2 in E minor for eight-part choir and wind instruments. Chamber Choir Stuttgart, The German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen.
  • Best list 2001/1 - choral works. For Jan Dismas Zelenka , Missa Dei Patris .
  • Best list 2001/3 - choral works. For Lux aeterna .... (works by Domenico Scarlatti , Gustav Mahler, György Ligeti and Anne Boyd.)
  • Leaderboard - For Jan Dismas Zelenka, Missa Dei Patris . Chamber Choir Stuttgart, Baroque Orchestra Stuttgart.
  • Best list 2005/1 - choral works. For Gottfried August Homilius , see what a love . (Motets).
  • Best list 2005/4 - choral works. For Johann Sebastian Bach , Easter Oratorio BWV 249; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach : Thank the Lord ; Holy . Chamber Choir Stuttgart, Baroque Orchestra Stuttgart.
  • Best list 2006/3 - choral works. For Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , lift up your eyes. (Church Works VII).
  • Best list 2010/3 - early music. For Jan Dismas Zelenka, Missa votiva.
  • Best list - For Otto Nicolai , Lord, I trust you . Chamber Choir Stuttgart.
  • Best list 2014/4 - For Louis Spohr , The last things . Winkel, Harmsen, Weller, Wolff, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Kammerchor Stuttgart.

Gramophone Magazine critic's choice

  • 2007: Johann Sebastian Bach, Mass in B minor . Chamber Choir Stuttgart. Stuttgart Baroque Orchestra.

Gramophone Magazine critic's choice - records of the year

  • Johann Sebastian Bach, Secular Cantatas . Chamber Choir Stuttgart, Concerto Cologne .
  • 1992 Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice (Viennese version from 1762). Chamber Choir Stuttgart, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.
  • 1995: Niccolò Jommelli , Didone abbandonata . Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Die Rheinpfalz , Ludwigshafen am Rhein, September 2, 2011.
  2. ^ Chamber choir Stuttgart - world premieres. On: stadtleben.de, November 5, 2016.
  3. ↑ Best list 1-2001 from February 22, 2001. Accessed January 28, 2011.
  4. ↑ Best List 3-2001 from August 23, 2001. Accessed January 28, 2011.
  5. ↑ Best list 1-2005 from February 15, 2005. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  6. ↑ Best List 4-2005 from November 15, 2005. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  7. ↑ Best List 3-2006 from August 15, 2006. Accessed January 28, 2011.
  8. ↑ Best list 3-2010 from August 15, 2010. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  9. ↑ Annual report 2009 ( Memento of May 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 3.7 MB) Bach Archive Leipzig , p. 41
  10. ↑ Tonkünstlerverband Baden-Württemberg
personal data
SURNAME Bernius, Frieder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choir and orchestra conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein