Klaus-Peter Pfeifer

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Dress rehearsal for the staged performance of Telemann's “Day of Judgment” on November 13, 1984

Klaus-Peter Pfeifer (* 1954 in Haan ) is a German church musician , conductor , singer and singing teacher .

Life

Klaus-Peter Pfeifer received his first musical training from 1962 to 1970 in the boys' choir of the Wuppertal Kurrende . After graduating from the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium in Hilden , he studied Protestant church music with Almut Rößler and Hartmut Schmidt at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf and then singing with Ingeborg Reichelt . There he made his exam as a state singing teacher. During this time he also studied harpsichord with Werner Smigelski and song accompaniment with Christian de Bruyn . Further studies took him to the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart , the Handel Academy in Karlsruhe and the Mozarteum in Salzburg .

Klaus-Peter Pfeifer has been cantor of the Emmaus parish in Willich since 1976 , where he founded the Emmaus cantorei in Willich that same year. From 1990 to 1999 he was a lecturer in singing and speech training at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf. In 1997 he took over the musical direction of the Moers Chamber Choir. In 1998 he was appointed district cantor of the Krefeld-Viersen church district by the Ev. Church in the Rhineland .

Klaus-Peter Pfeifer was also a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association and musical director of studies and harpsichordist at the Berlin Chamber Opera and at the Berlin Chamber Theater in the productions Acis and Galathea and Agrippina condotta a morire by Georg Friedrich Handel and Benjamin Britten's Turn of the screw . From 1980 to 1990 he dealt with historical performance practice in regular concerts with the Freiburg Baroque Ensemble and the violinist Petra Müllejans .

A special concern for him is the inclusion of various arts in his musical work. In 1985 the interdisciplinary ecumenical church music weeks in Willich were founded and in 1990 the first staged performance of the Christmas oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach in Willich and Neuss with the Emmaus Kantorei Willich in cooperation with the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf, directed by Christoff Bleidt .
In 2009, Klaus-Peter Pfeifer was able to present his extensive musical work with the Willich music project in the “Gallery of Good Practice”, the EKD's future workshop in Kassel.

Concert tours with the Emmaus Kantorei Willich have taken him to France , England , Dresden ( Kreuzkirche ), Kiev (2005), Vienna ( Peterskirche ), Italy , Ireland ( Christ Church Cathedral ), Poland ( Marienkirche Krakau ), Benedictine basilica Ettal , Latvia ( Dom zu Riga ), Vatican City (2014; design of the main mass in St. Peter's Basilica ) and Oslo .

Under his direction, productions of Telemann's The Day of Judgment took place as a staged performance (directed by Christoff Bleidt; 1984), Haydn's The Creation in connection with a live art performance (1993) and as a light staging with Ulrich Greb from Moerser Schlosstheater (2003), Orff's Carmina Burana as a half- staged version in Moers (directed by Christoff Bleidt; 2000), The Treasure of Apollonia with music by Vivaldi and Happy birthday, Mozart with texts by Utz-Peter Greis (2004 and 2006), Haydn's Seasons with animation video by Michel Hutter ( 2008) and Mendelssohn's version of Handel's Acis and Galatea in collaboration with Tanzhaus NRW (2012). In addition, he has conducted numerous concerts of the less frequently performed choral literature, such as Handel's Samson (2009), Suppès Requiem (2010), Spohr's The Last Things (2011), Brahms' Schicksalslied (2011), Donizetti's Messa da Requiem (2013) and Beethoven's Mass in C major with Spohr's Jubilate (2014).

As a soloist, Klaus-Peter Pfeifer took part in the opera productions Jakobe (1988) and Die Ey by Ratko Delorko (1991) in Düsseldorf.

Klaus-Peter Pfeifer wrote numerous reviews for the Westdeutsche Zeitung and the weekly Der Weg , as well as CD reviews for the Rheinische Post .

Publications

  • Otto Thomas: Passion-Choral-Devotion. on the seven words of the cross after the poem by Paul Gerhardt for choir a cappella. Edited by Klaus-Peter Pfeifer. Dr. J. Butz Musikverlag, Sankt Augustin.
  • Music in the mirror of the arts. Illustrated book on projects by the Emmaus Kantorei on the occasion of the “Future Workshop 2009” of the Evangelical Church in Germany . Edited and published by Willicher Musikprojekt e. V.
  • Collaboration on the topic package: Paul Gerhardt , published by the community work of Evangelical Journalism .
  • To sing! Every vote counts. EKiR workbook . Published by the regional church office of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Internet presence of the Willicher MusikProjekt
  2. ↑ Topic package: Paul Gerhardt ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 30, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gemeindemenschen.de
  3. PDF edition of the workbook “Singen! Every vote counts ”, accessed September 30, 2015.