Uwe Gronostay (25 October 1939 – 29 November 2008) was a German choral conductor and

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. Born in

Hildesheim Hildesheim (; or ; ) is a city in Lower Saxony, in north-central Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim (district), Hildesheim, about southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of t ...

, he grew up in

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( ; from Low German , local dialect: ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the ...

and was already organist of the Jakobikirche at age 15. He studied church music in

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (, ), is the capital of the States of Germany, German state of the Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (), a two-city-state consisting of the c ...

and worked as church musician, organ teacher and freelance worker for

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. In 1972 he was appointed director of the RIAS Kammerchor. He also conducted from 1982 to 2002 the , and from 1987 to 1998 the Nederlands Kamerkoor in

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. He was a professor of choral conducting in Frankfurt, later from 1989 and 2003 at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin.

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„Chordirigent und Chorerzieher von Rang – Uwe Gronostay ist tot“
Neue Musikzeitung-online, 2 December 2008 German male conductors (music) 1939 births 2008 deaths Musicians from Braunschweig Academic staff of the Berlin University of the Arts 20th-century German conductors (music) 20th-century German male musicians People from Hildesheim {{Germany-conductor-stub