Christoph Siebert
Occupations
Choral conductor
Academic teacher
Organizations
Christoph Siebert is a German choral conductor, coaching and directing ensembles including the Collegium Vocale Gent . He is also an academic teacher in the field.
Career
Siebert studied church music at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt . After his exam, he continued to study choral and orchestral conducting with Wolfgang Schäfer . He received training by John Eliot Gardiner .[ 1]
He works as a church musician in the parish St. Pankratius in Schwalbach am Taunus ,[ 2] and regularly conducts the Ricarda-Huch-Chor in Dreieich , the vocal ensemble Prophet in Offenbach and the chamber choir Cantemus in Bensheim .[ 1] He is the regular coach and sometimes conductor of the professional groups Collegium Vocale Gent ,[ 1] [ 3] often conducted by Philippe Herreweghe , and the deutscher kammerchor.[ 1]
Siebert conducted the Collegium Vocale Gent in Ruhe , a performance of the
Muziektheater Transparant , with part songs by Schubert including "Ruhe, schönstes Glück der Erde", and by Annelies Van Parys .[ 4] It was shown from 2007 to 2010 at festivals in Europe and Australia.[ 5] In Accatone , a production of the 2015 Ruhrtriennale staged by Johan Simons after Pier Paolo Pasolini , Siebert conducted the Collegium Vocale Gent singing excerpts from five Bach cantatas , with soloists Dorothee Mields , Alex Potter , Thomas Hobbs and Peter Kooy.[ 6] He prepared the choir for a performance of Haydn's Die Schöpfung , conducted by René Jacobs at the same festival.[ 7]
As a guest he has prepared the Rundfunkchor Berlin for a concert with Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic . He has worked with the Vokalconsort Berlin, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen , the Freiburger Barockorchester and the Chapelle Royale , and with conductors such as Sylvain Cambreling , Marcus Creed , Attilio Cremonesi, Paavo Järvi , Louis Langrée , Neville Marriner and John Nelson .[ 1] [ 8] He prepared the Frauenchor des Europachores Frankfurt (women's choir of the Europe Choir Frankfurt) for a performance of Mahler's Third Symphony , performed at the Alte Oper Frankfurt on 4 February 2015 with Nathalie Stutzmann , the Limburger Domsingknaben and the hr-Sinfonieorchester conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada . The performance was broadcast by Hessischer Rundfunk .[ 8]
Siebert founded the orchestra concerto classico frankfurt which plays on period instruments, focused on Baroque and Classical period oratorios in historically informed performance .[ 1]
He has been a lecturer for chorale conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt.[ 1] At a synod of chorale conductors of the Diocese of Limburg , held in the boarding school of the Limburger Domsingknaben in Hadamar on 18 March 2017, he covered the topic Probenmethodik (Methods of rehearsing).[ 9]
In summer 2020 Christoph Siebert will take over the artistic direction of the Bach-Verein Köln.[ 10] [ 11]
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