Hans-Hermann Jansen

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Hans-Hermann Jansen (born November 1, 1960 in Alpen am Niederrhein ) is a German musician , educator and university lecturer .

After attending the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck boarding school , Jansen studied school music , musicology , music theory and singing at the Detmold University of Music (among others with Hildegard Uhrmacher ) and literature at Bielefeld University .

He took master classes with Gérard Souzay , Kurt Moll , Robert Spencer and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , among others , and performed as a concert singer all over Germany.

From 1986 to 2005 Jansen was a choir singer in La Chapelle Royale Paris , in the Collegium Vocale Gent and in the European Vocal Ensemble , followed by other activities with a focus on baroque music with La Petite Bande , Anima Aeterna and Amsterdam Baroque . He sang u. a. under the conductors Giuseppe Sinopoli , Jordi Savall , Gustav Leonhardt , Philippe Herreweghe , Hans Vonk and Ton Koopman and is a member of the vocal ensemble ColVoc .

Jansen teaches at the Detmold Young Student Institute , at the Johannes Brahms School in Detmold and at the University of Paderborn .

In 1993 he founded the Society of Friends of Music at Marienmünster Abbey , of which he is the artistic director. Jansen is the managing director of the Grabbe Society in Detmold.

In October 2011, Hans-Hermann Jansen was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon, and in 2007 he was awarded the Heinz Krekeler Medal .

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