Norbert Matsch

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Norbert Matsch (* 1969 in Horn in Lower Austria ) is an Austrian church music director.

Life

Norbert Matsch grew up in Retz and received his first musical training in the Altenburg Benedictine Abbey with Leopold Friedl. The following church music studies at the Vienna Academy of Music were Erwin Ortner and peter planyavsky his formative teacher. In Vienna, Norbert Matsch was director of the Collegium Vocale Vienna and rehearsal assistant in the Arnold Schoenberg Choir . In addition to teaching at the Vienna Diocesan Conservatory, he was also second conductor of the Vienna Woods Boys' Choir . After moving to South Tyrol, he founded the Michael Pacher Choir in Bruneck and could be heard with it at the Festival for Sacred Music Bolzano-Trento and the Gustav Mahler Weeks in Toblach . Recently the choir has been singing more and more works by Tyrolean composers of the 20th century. In autumn 2003, Norbert Matsch was appointed as cathedral music director at the Linz Mariendom, where he successfully conducted the Linz Cathedral Music. Since autumn 2005 he has been responsible for all church music as the collegiate bandmaster of the Premonstratensian Monastery in Wilten .

Awards

Norbert Matsch is the winner of the 1997 Erwin Ortner Prize .

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