Roman Twardy is a German teacher, academic lecturer and the conductor of the Wiesbadener Knabenchor boys' choir in

Wiesbaden Wiesbaden (; ) is the capital of the German state of Hesse, and the second-largest Hessian city after Frankfurt am Main. With around 283,000 inhabitants, it is List of cities in Germany by population, Germany's 24th-largest city. Wiesbaden form ...

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, Germany. The choir appears internationally and has made recordings. From 2019, Twardy is also interim conductor of the church choir Chor von St. Bonifatius in Wiesbaden.

Career

Twardy was introduced to music as a member of the Kiedricher Chorbuben boys' choir. He studied musicology, music pedagogy and composition at the Musikhochschule Mainz and choral conducting at the

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in Berlin. He taught music at the in Wiesbaden, including the theatre group, orchestra and string classes. He was also a lecturer of composition (') and listening (''Hörschulung'') at the Musikhochschule Mainz. He is a teacher of German studies and music at a boarding school for gifted children, the Internatsschule Schloss Hansenberg. Twardy has been the conductor of the Wiesbadener Knabenchor boys' choir since 2001, leading them in concerts, on tours and for recordings. In 2005, they made the first recording of

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's Passion oratorio ''Das Lied des Lammes'', which had been lost. Twardy chose works from the 16th to the 21st century, including compositions by

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and Sylke Zimpel, for a CD in 2009, when the choir celebrated its 50th anniversary. In 2010, he conducted the choir in a concert of Handel's ''

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'' at the Marktkirche Wiesbaden, with soloists Elisabeth Scholl,

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and Florian Plock. The choir performs regularly in concerts during

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in Wiesbaden churches such as St. Bonifatius and the Christuskirche. For their artistic work as "ambassadors" of the capital, Twardy and the choir were awarded the Culture Prize of the City of Wiesbaden in 2013. From 2019, Twardy has been the interim conductor of the Chor von St. Bonifatius in Wiesbaden, succeeding

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. In his first choral concert there on 26 October 2019, he conducted Dvořák's

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with the choir, members of the orchestra of the

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, and soloists including soprano Betsy Horne and bass Johannes Hill.Antonín Dvořák: Stabat Mater
St. Bonifatius Wiesbaden, 2019 A review noted the good preparation over months, leading to fine intonation and rhythmic precision, especially in

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passages.

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