Jörg Straube

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Jörg Straube (born May 1, 1953 in Bremen ) is a German conductor , choir director and university teacher .

Live and act

Straube attended high school on Hamburger Straße in Bremen and founded various ensembles during his subsequent studies in school and church music , including the North German Figural Choir in 1981 . In 1986 he took over the direction of the Hanover Bach Choir at the Marktkirche there . He also works as a guest conductor with the choirs of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk Hamburg , the RIAS Berlin , the Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk and the Rundfunkchor Berlin .

Since 1984 Straube has been the permanent musical advisor to the Lower Saxony State Youth Choir .

Straube works as a university lecturer at the University of Music Würzburg and at the Escolas dos Artes in Porto (Portugal).

Discography (selection)

  • In dulci jubilo: Christmas choral movements of the romantic . Dabringhaus and Grimm, Detmold 2010
  • Francis Poulenc: Secular Choral Music . Dabringhaus and Grimm, Detmold 2009
  • Kurt Thomas: Psalm 137.Bella Musica, Bühl 2007
  • Alfred Koerppen: Jona, Elia, Stephanus. [Works for choir and organ], Bella Musica, Bühl 2005
  • 6th German Choir Competition 2002 (Osnabrück), Freiburg Music Forum, Freiburg (Breisgau) [2003]
  • Richard Strauss: Works for Choir. Thorofon, Wedemark [2001]
  • Johannes Brahms: The entire sacred work for choir and organ. Thorofon, Wedemark [1999]
  • Arthur Honegger: Le roi David. State Music Council Lower Saxony , Hanover [1998]
  • Max Reger: Sacred choral music. [Works / selection], Thorofon, Wedemark [1998]
  • Franz Schubert: Works for Choir and Piano. [Works / selection], Thorofon, Wedemark [1997]
  • Frank Martin: Songs of Ariel from Shakespeare's Tempest. Thorofon, Wedemark [1996]
  • Chansons. Thorofon, Wedemark [1995]
  • Come comfort to the world. Thorofon, Wedemark [1992]
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor. [BWV 232], Thorofon, Wedemark [1991]

Honourings and prices

  • 1983 Lower Saxony artist grant
  • With his ensembles, Straube has won numerous prizes at national and international choir competitions:
    • 1990: 1st prize at the German Choir Competition with the North German Figural Choir
    • 1992: 1st prize at the chamber choir competition in Takarazuka / Japan with the North German Figural Choir
    • 1997: 1st prize at the Brahms Competition in Hamburg with the North German Figural Choir
    • 1998: 3rd prize at the German Choir Competition with the Hanover Bach Choir
    • 1999: 1st and 2nd prize at the 31st choir competition in Tolosa / Spain with the North German Figural Choir
  • His choral music recordings with the North German Figural Choir have won multiple record and CD awards
  • In 1998, 1999, 2008 and 2010 he received the Echo Klassik with the North German Figural Choir for the field of choir / ensemble music - a cappella and additionally in 2010 for the "Vocal Ensemble of the Year"

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Straube , in Peter Evers, Jörg Straube, Anne Brandstetter, Sabine Nauber (ed.): Bachchor Hannover. 50 years. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Bach Choir Hanover , ed. on behalf of the parish council of the Marktkirchengemeinde and the Bach Choir Hannover, Hannover 1995, p. 13
personal data
SURNAME Straube, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, choir director and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen