Stephan Schreckenberger (born 16 February 1955) is a German bass singer and conductor, especially in the field of early music. From 2003, he has been a teacher at the
Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt
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, and from 2011 the director of the festival ''Weilburger Schlosskonzerte''.
Career
Schreckenberger first studied music education at the
Musikhochschule Frankfurt, then voice with
Annemarie Grünewald in
Heidelberg
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and
Ernst Gerold Schramm in
Berlin
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. He finished his training with
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in Frankfurt.
From the late 1980s, Schreckenberger was a member of the vocal ensemble
Cantus Cölln.
He has worked internationally, primarily in the field of early music. He participated in around 60 recordings. He has collaborated often with conductors such as
Hermann Max
Hermann Max (born 1941 in Goslar) is a German choral conductor.
In 1977, he founded the Jugendkantorei Dormagen, which in 1985 became the basis of the Rheinische Kantorei and Das Kleine Konzert. In 1992, he founded the Knechtsteden Early Music ...
,
Jordi Savall
Jordi Savall i Bernadet (; born 1 August 1941) is a Spanish Conducting, conductor, composer and viol player. He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s, largely responsible for popularizing the viol ...
and
Michael Schneider. He recorded
Bach cantatas
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with
Konrad Junghänel,
Sigiswald Kuijken
Sigiswald Kuijken (; born 16 February 1944) is a Belgian violinist, violist, and conductor known for playing on period and original instruments.
Biography
Kuijken was born in Dilbeek, near Brussels. He was a member of the Alarius Ensemble o ...
and
Masaaki Suzuki.
In 1999, Schreckenberger founded the vocal ensemble ''Musica Lingua'' and released several CDs on the Leipzig classical music label
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Since 2003 he has taught singers and vocal ensembles at the department of historically informed performance of the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. In 2011, he was appointed director of the summer music festival
Weilburger Schlosskonzerte, succeeding
Karl Rarichs, who was the artistic director for 30 years.
References
External links
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German basses
German male conductors (music)
1955 births
Living people
21st-century German conductors (music)
21st-century German male musicians