Veronika Stoertzenbach

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Veronika Stoertzenbach (* 1958 in Bonlanden auf den Fildern ) is a German conductor and university music director .

Life and artistic work

Veronika Stoertzenbach was born into a family of musicians. After graduating from high school, she studied cello, piano and singing at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts and, at the same time, musicology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . She completed her studies in 1984/5 with the state examination in school music with the broadening subject of ensemble management. This was followed by postgraduate studies in conducting with Thomas Ungar .

The conductor is particularly interested in working with amateurs. In 1983 she founded the Paulus Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart . In 1985 she was appointed director of the Gerlingen Chamber Orchestra. In 1988 Veronika Stoertzenbach took over the choir and orchestra of the University of Stuttgart as university music director , at the same time she was a lecturer for choir and orchestra conducting at the church music academy in Rottenburg am Neckar . For the 40th anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1989, she was allowed to conduct the Munich Philharmonic as a junior conductor - selected by Sergiu Celibidache . From 1990 to 2000 she taught at the Trossingen University of Music .

Veronika Stoertzenbach is married to Dieter Kurz . The couple has two children.

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Individual evidence

  1. http://www.se.hs-heilbronn.de/~poneu/Stati.aspx?name=leitung
  2. Biographical information from: www.uni-stuttgart.de , accessed on December 21, 2009
  3. www.uni-stuttgart , accessed on December 21, 2009