Jörg Breiding (born 1972) is a German choral conductor and academic teacher. He has been the conductor of the

Knabenchor Hannover The Knabenchor Hannover (Hannover Boys' Choir) is a Boys' choir, boys choir founded in 1950 by Heinz Hennig, who served as conductor until the end of 2001. Since 2002, the conductor has been Jörg Breiding. History and music The Knabenchor Hann ...

since 2002. He taught at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, and has been professor of choral conducting at the

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Career

Born in

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, Breiding studied music pedagogy, voice pedagogy and German at the

Musikhochschule Hannover A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger in ...

. He also studied conducting choirs and orchestras with Gerd Müller-Lorenz in Lübeck and Heinz Hennig in Hannover. After one year as the assistant of Hennig, who had founded the

in 1950, he succeeded Hennig as artistic director of the boys' choir in January 2002. Breiding lectured on choral conducting at the Musikhochschule Lübeck from 1998 to 2005. He then became professor of choral conducting at the

, where he founded and conducted the Folkwang Konzertchor and the Folkwang Vokalensemble. Breiding collaborated in Germany and internationally with ensembles such as Concerto Palatino, London Brass, Barockorchester L’Arco, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Leipziger Barockorchester,

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, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, and the Nürnberger Symphoniker, among others. In 2019, Breiding conducted Knabennchor Hannover singing new arrangements of folk songs written for the choir and the

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quintet, in a series of concerts in the and at summer festivals such as the

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, in a program for a new CD.

Recordings

Breiding conducted radio productions for NDR, WDR and

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, and made several recordings, including the world premiere recording of sacred music by

Andreas Hammerschmidt Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611 or 1612 – 29 October 1675) was a German Bohemian composer and organist of the early to middle Baroque era. He was one of the most significant and popular composers of sacred music in Germany in the middle 17th centu ...

, titled ''Verleih uns Frieden – Geistliche Vokalmusik von Andreas Hammerschmidt'' with the vocal ensemble Himlische Cantorey and the Johann-Rosenmüller-Ensemble. This recording and a CD of new cantatas for the liturgical year, ''Glaubenslieder – Neue Kantaten zum Kirchenjahr'', were awarded the

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in the category choral recording of the year. Among recordings with Breiding conducting, there are several of choral works by the label in

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, including: * ''Andreas Hammerschmidt – Verleih uns Frieden'', 2005 * ''John Rutter – Magnificat, Bruder Heinrichs Weihnachten'', 2007 * ''Actus tragicus – Kantaten und Motetten auf dem Weg zu Johann Sebastian Bach'', 2008 * ''Dietrich Buxtehude – Membra Jesu Nostri'', 2008 * ''Glaubenslieder – Neue Kantaten zum Kirchenjahr'', 2009 * ''Michael Praetorius – Michaelisvesper'', 2009 * ''Harald Weiss – Requiem'', 2010 * ''Gloria in excelsis Deo – Advents- und Weihnachtslieder mit dem Knabenchor Hannover mit Sätze von Siegfried Strohbach'', 2012 * ''Knabenchor Hannover – Portrait-CD'', 2012 * ''Folkwang Vokal – Vokalmusik vom frühen Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart''. Folkwang CD Edition, Essen 2012 * ''Christmas Carols – Festliche Musik zur Weihnachtszeit'', 2014 * ''Johann Sebastian Bach – Markuspassion (BWV 247). Rekonstruktion von Simon Heighes (1995)'', 2014 * ''Johann Rosenmüller – Marienvesper'', 2015

References

External links

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Jörg Breiding (Conductor)
Bach Cantatas Website

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