Volker Schneider (choir director)

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Volker Schneider (born December 16, 1946 in Heidelberg ) is a German teacher and choir director .

Volker Schneider

Life

Volker Schneider grew up in Greater Saxony . In 1976 he married Margarete Klein. Schneider has two children: Christiane and Michael. In 1958 he had his first contact with choir singing when his uncle Siegfried Salten took him to the Austrian National Singers Festival in Vienna.

In 1966 he began conducting training with Emil Schumacher. He then went on to study at the University of Education in Heidelberg and at the Badische Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, which he graduated with the First State Examination (1971) and Second State Examination (1972). In 1972 he came to the Martin Stöhr School (now the Karl Drais School); In 1993 he took over the school choir.

In 1973 he received the title of ADC choir director (now BDC choir director) of the Working Group of German Choir Associations (now: Federal Association of German Choir Associations ).

Further stations of his musical activity were in 1969 when he took over the MGV singers' association as choir director, in 1978 the founders of the Silcher Quartet Bergstrasse, in 1983 the establishment of the men's quartet Bergstrasse and in 1987 the establishment of a women's choir in Neckarau. In 1990 he became director of the choir of the Palatinate Choir in Mannheim.

In 1986 he became vice principal of the Martin Stöhr School. From 1991 Schneider headed the secondary school of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer School in Weinheim. He was also headmaster in Eppelheim for four years. From 2001 to 2010 he was the principal of the Karrillon secondary school in Weinheim.

In 1995 he staged the musical Glasnost with over 200 participants from choirs and schools. In 1996 a performance took place in Moscow.

From 2004 to 2012 he organized and directed the annual Goldbeck Music Festival as part of the Hirschberg Music Summer

Culture projects

Children's choir project “Every child has a voice”: 200 children from the third and fourth grades of the Karl Drais School, the Großsachsen primary school and the Evangelical Children's Choir The catchy tunes stood together on the stage for the children's musical Echte Kinderrechte . The two performances were presented in the auditorium of the Karl Drais School by the KDS association. The project was financially supported by the Hirschberg Community Foundation. Volker Schneider had organized a benefit concert on the occasion of his 65th birthday for their earmarked benefit.

Choir trips

With his choirs he has toured New Zealand, Australia, China, Dubai, Namibia, Cuba and Brazil. At a Swedish wedding, Schneider and one of his choirs performed there on request. He also explored abroad with his students. So he traveled with the Turkish Karrillon students to their homeland. And in the last year of his activity as the rector of this Weinheim secondary school, he went to the Polish Masuria with students in 2010.

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SURNAME Schneider, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and choir director
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim