Steffen Kammler is a Norwegian conductor born 6 May 1965 in

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in the German district

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. He has been a Norwegian citizen since 2008.

Education

Steffen Kammler was a member of the 700-year-old boy choir

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from 1975 to 1983, in

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which is the capital of

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. Kammler studied

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at the university of

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and tok his diploma in 1990. His education continued with choir conducting at the music college in

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state (Germany), German state of Thuringia, in Central Germany (cultural area), Central Germany between Erfurt to the west and Jena to the east, southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together w ...

with Gert Frischmut, and orchestral conducting at music colleges in Weimar and

Career

Kammler worked with ''Chamber choir

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'' in Leipzig from 1990 to 1997. He was employed as chorus master at the Opernhaus Halle from 1996 to 1997 and in the same position at

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from 1997 to 2001. Kammler was chorus master for

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s choir, from 2001 to 2009, and from 2009 to 2010 conductor for Oslo Vokalensemble. He is currently (since 2008) conducting Cæciliaforeningen and since 2009 Den norske Studentersangforening.Homepage of the choir ''Den norske Studentersangforening'' (in Norwegian)
/ref> Since 2009 is Kammler guest conductor at the university in

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References

External links

Den norske Studentersangforening

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kammler, Steffen Norwegian male conductors (music) 1965 births Living people People from Calbe Musicians from Dresden 21st-century Norwegian conductors (music) 21st-century Norwegian male musicians