Stefan Baier
Stefan Baier (* 1967 in Passau ) is a German organist , harpsichordist and music teacher.
Life and professional activity
Stefan Baier received organ lessons from Toni Glas and Wolfgang Zerer as a schoolboy . After graduating from high school, he studied church music, organ and harpsichord in Regensburg , Munich and Vienna with Karl Friedrich Wagner, Michael Radulescu and Gordon Murray .
In 2003 he was appointed professor for organ at the University of Catholic Church Music and Music Education in Regensburg. Since October 2011 he has headed it as Rector in the second term. Since 2006 he has been a permanent guest lecturer at the Institute for Church Music of the theological faculty at the University of Opole .
Baier is a speaker on numerous courses for organ and "early music" and has been a guest lecturer at universities in the Czech Republic , Slovakia , Sweden, Portugal and Cuba . Activities as a judge at competitions and guest concerts as an organist and harpsichordist in many countries of Europe , in North Africa , Japan , Cuba and publishing activities as part of Edition series Sacred concentus Ratisbonenses are more of his activities. Since 2017, Baier has been chairman of the “Conference of Directors of Catholic Church Music Training Centers in Germany”.
As an expert, for example, he was involved in the restoration of the Johann Ignaz Egedacher organ in the parish church of the Assumption of Mary in Vornbach am Inn. He is also a member of the specialist commission for the "Bach organ" planned by Ahrend in the Dreieinigkeitskirche Regensburg .
Sound carrier
Stefan Baier can be heard as a soloist and as a member of the ensemble on the following recordings:
- Fiat Lux (2009)
- The envoy Kindlwiegen (2010)
- Music of the ambassadors. Works by Johann Kaspar Kerll , Georg Muffat , Johann Pachelbel , Johann Ludwig Krebs , Joseph Ferdinand Seeger , Justin Heinrich Knecht and Jiri Karel Holtzmaister . Stefan Baier at the organ by Frantz Jacob Späth (1750) in St. Oswald Regensburg . Ambiente, 2011.
- Bavarocco (2011)
- Musica ex moenibus (2011)
- Ecce Lignum (2011)
- Dolci Canti (2012)
Web links
- Stefan Baier on the website of the University for Catholic Church Music and Music Education Regensburg
- Music as an urgently needed privilege. Interview with Stefan Baier, Neue Musikzeitung , issue 2/2012, volume 61, accessed on December 29, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Stefan Baier on the website of the University of Catholic Church Music and Music Education in Regensburg, accessed on December 28, 2016
- ↑ Reporting in the MZ , accessed on December 28, 2016
- ↑ organ portrait on the website of Kuhn Organ Builders , accessed on 29 December 2016th
- ↑ A Bach organ for Regensburg on the website of the evang.-luth. Dreieinigkeitskirche Regensburg, accessed on December 29, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baier, Stefan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German organist, harpsichordist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Passau |