Michael glasses
Michael glasses (born November 2, 1957 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German singer and choir director .
Life
Glasses attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig from 1967 to 1978 and was a member of the St. Thomas Choir . From 1978 to 1985 he studied singing with Heidi Rieß and conducting with Andreas Pieske , Wolf-Dieter Hauschild and Dietrich Knothe at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music in Leipzig and the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin .
He conducted the GewandhausChor , the Berliner Singakademie and the MDR-Rundfunkchor Leipzig (also active as a singer). In 1986 he became an assistant to Dietrich Knothe at the Rundfunkchor Berlin . From 1990 to 2005 he was the artistic director of the Bavarian Radio Choir . From 1998 the choir held subscription concerts in the Prinzregententheater . He has been the choir's guest conductor since 2005. In 2014 Michael Gläser represented the sick Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller and led the St. Thomas Choir in Leipzig as an interim cantor for a quarter of a year . During this time he conducted all motets as well as concerts with the Gewandhaus Orchestra .
Since 1994 he has been professor of choral conducting at the Munich University of Music and Theater . He also heads the Evangelical Church Music department. In 2003 he founded the Bavarian Radio Choir Conductors' Forum .
Awards
- Nomination for the Grammy Awards 2008 in the category Best Choral Performance for Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder (together with the Bavarian Radio Choir and the MDR-Rundfunkchor Leipzig under Howard Arman )
literature
- Glasses, Michael. In: Axel Schniederjürgen (Ed.): Kürschner's Musicians Handbook. 5th edition, Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3 , p. 141.
Web links
- Works by and about Michael Gläser in the catalog of the German National Library
- Michael Glasses in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Michael Gläser at the Munich University of Music and Theater
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prof. Michael Gläser (56): From the choirboy to the Thomaskantor . In: bild.de . ( bild.de [accessed on January 3, 2018]).
Robert Seiler (1946–1949) | Josef Kugler (1949–1958) | Kurt Prestel (1958–1963) | Wolfgang Schubert (1963–1969) | Heinz Mende and Josef Schmidhuber (1969–1981) | Gordon Kember (1981-1984) | Hans-Peter Rauscher (1986–1990) | Michael glasses (1990-2005) | Peter Dijkstra (2005–2016) | Howard Arman (since 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Glasses, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer and choir director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karl Marx City |