Heribert Breuer

Heribert Breuer (born September 27, 1945 ) is the founder and conductor of the Berlin Bach Academy .

Heribert Breuer studied a. a. with Helmuth Rilling , Hanns Martin Schneidt , Ernst Pepping and Bernd Alois Zimmermann in Heidelberg, Berlin and Cologne. At the beginning of his career, which Heribert Breuer began in 1968 as a 23-year-old at the main church St. Aegidien in Lübeck , the focus of his work was in the field of choir conducting and composition: He founded the Lübeck Bach Choir and published his first compositions .

His path led him via Würzburg (1974 to 1979 artistic director of the Würzburg Bach Days ) to Aachen , where he also worked as artistic director of the Aachen Bach Association and the Aachen Bach Days . In 1982 Heribert Breuer was appointed professor for choral conducting and counterpoint at the Berlin University of the Arts . From 1991 to 2002 he was the organist and head of music at St. Matthäuskirche in the Kulturforum.

In 1991, for the 1st Bach Week in St. Matthew, he founded the Berlin Bach Academy, an ensemble that professionally corresponds to his ideas of interpretation and sound. Concert tours as organist and conductor have taken Heribert Breuer to all Western European countries, the USA and Latin America. He is particularly interested in the Spanish-speaking countries, where he not only performed as an organist and guest conductor, but also gave courses at conservatoires in Spain, Brazil, Argentina and Central America.

Web links

• Works by and about Heribert Breuer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heribert Breuer on the website of the Berlin Bach Academy