Steffen Schreyer

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Steffen Schreyer (* 1968 in Gerolzhofen ) is a German conductor and church musician .

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Steffen Schreyer studied church music and concert organ at the University of Music and Theater in Munich . In 1989 he founded the Motettus ecclesiae chamber choir in his hometown Gerolzhofen , with which he appeared in Bavaria. He deepened his training as a choir conductor with Anders Eby at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm . There he was awarded the medal of the Musical Academy, the so-called Belöningsjeton, for exceptional achievements on the occasion of his master class diploma in 1997 . This made him the first conducting graduate from the Stockholm Conservatory to receive this honor.

From 1995 to 2001 Steffen Schreyer worked as a cathedral organist at the St. Erich Cathedral and as a freelance choir conductor. His concert activities have taken him to the Swedish Radio Choir , the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir , the Lithuanian State Choir , the WDR Rundfunkchor Köln , the NDR Rundfunkchor Hamburg and the Stockholm Sinfonietta Chamber Orchestra .

To promote contemporary choral music, he founded the vocal ensemble Contrast , which worked on and premiered works from the composition class at the Stockholm University of Music in dialogue with the composers. He worked closely with composers such as Thomas Jennefelt , Sven-David Sandström , Lars-Erik Rosell and Gunnar Hahn and later Jürg Baur , Michael Hoppe and Michael Denhoff . One of his concerns is to turn performances of contemporary music into multi-layered performances by incorporating extra-musical elements. He is also interested in non-classical singing techniques such as B. against the overtone singing . Here he worked with Wolfgang Saus and Stuart Hinds , among others , and was co-founder with Saus of the European Overtone Choir , which he also leads.

From 2001 until the institute was closed in 2007, Steffen Schreyer held a professorship for choral conducting at the Catholic University for Church Music St. Gregorius in Aachen . Here he initiated a postgraduate course in choral conducting, which - with a 16-strong professional vocal ensemble as an instrument for the students - was unique in Germany. The master class in choral conducting jointly held by him and the Norwegian composer Knut Nystedt in June 2004 met with nationwide interest . He also founded the St. Gregorius Children's Choir in Aachen in 2001 in order to enable the students of the church music college to work in this area as well. This children's choir quickly counted well over 100 participants and won numerous prizes.

Schreyer is the founder and musical director of the European Vocal Soloists , a professional ensemble with singers from Scandinavia, the Baltic States and Central Europe. He is a guest conductor in conducting courses, lecturer at festivals and juror in various choir competitions as well as with numerous radio, television and CD productions. Since 2008 he has been chief conductor of the Slovenian Chamber Choir in Ljubljana . In 2009 Schreyer was appointed church music director at the Konstanz Minster . Since the winter semester 2010/2011 he has been teaching conducting at the Musikhochschule Freiburg i. Br. In .

Honourings and prices

  • 1998: 1st prize at the VI. International GP da Palestrina choir competition in Rome with Stockholm's baroque body
  • 2007: 1st prize at the international choir competition in Linz with the St. Gregorius children's choir
  • 2007: 2nd prize at the Mariele Ventre International Choral Conducting Competition in Bologna
  • 2008: 1st prize at the International Choir Competition in Bratislava with the St. Gregorius Children's Choir

Discography

  • Michael Denhoff : In unum Deum, op. 93 (and Credo, op. 93a) for soprano, baritone, choir, organ and instrumental ensemble. Commissioned by the Discussion Group for Music and Church and the German Bishops' Conference on the occasion of the 1st Ecumenical Church Congress in Berlin. Irene Kurka (soprano), Alban Lenzen (baritone), choir and orchestra of the KHK St. Gregorius Aachen, headed by Steffen Schreyer. Cybele.
  • Sancta Lucia, Light in a Dark Time. Cantata.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release on Steffen Schreyer's entry into service in Konstanz ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in Südkurier from December 20, 2008, accessed on June 18, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Schreyer, Steffen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and church musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Gerolzhofen