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Hansjörg Albrecht - Conductor

Hansjörg Albrecht, conductor, organist and harpsichordist, is Artistic Director of the Munich Bach Choir since the season 2005/06 and besides permanent Guest Conductor of the Bach Collegium Munich. Since autumn 2007 he also regularly conducts the Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Choir Hamburg and became Artistic Director of the Hamburg Sinfonietta in 2009.

With these ensembles as well as in collaboration with guest orchestras he has developed new programmatic profiles (with symphonic music for orchestra and choir, orchestral works and opera concertante by Gluck, Schubert, Grieg, Verdi, Wagner, Mahler, Strauss, Vaughan Williams, Orff, Honegger, Duruflé, Poulenc, Messiaen and others) and performs frequently at Munich's and Hamburg's concert halls as well as in cities like Turin, Gdansk, Warsaw, Berlin, Frankfurt/a.M., Mannheim, Wiesbaden and at various renowned music festivals in Europe (Settembre Musica, Festival Europäische Wochen Passau, Internationale Gustav-Mahler-Musikwochen Toblach, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Festival Europa Musicale, summer festival of Bayerischer Rundfunk).

So far he has already worked with such orchestras as Prague Philharmonia, Bavarian State Orchestra, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Münchener Bach-Orchester, Hamburger Symphoniker, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Philharmonisches Orchester Lübeck, Chamber Orchestra Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Berlin and Hamburg Baroque Orchestra.

Hansjörg Albrecht is one of the most versatile musicians of the younger generation. Born in Freiberg/Saxony, he received his first musical education as a member of the Dresden Kreuzchor. Later, Hansjörg Albrecht studied conducting and organ in Hamburg, Lyon and Cologne. While studying he became assistant organist at Hamburg's main church St. Michaelis and held this position for seven years. On the occasion of the Bach Year 2000, Hansjörg Albrecht founded the chamber orchestra "concerto agile" whose repertoire reached from the complete orchestral works and solo cantatas by Bach over symphonies by Haydn and Mozart up to the 20th century (with a special focus on Gustav Mahler). During this time, while concentrating on keyboard instruments, he also developed a very intensive and multifaceted artistic collaboration spanning five years with the singer and conductor Peter Schreier.

In parallel with his conducting Hansjörg Albrecht has also built up an international reputation as organist and harpsichordist. He performed as a soloist in the leading concert halls and cathedrals of Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Munich, Prague, Riga, Madrid and New York and guested with such orchestras as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Swisse Romande, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Santa Cecilia Rome, the Camerata Salzburg, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks with conductors such as Peter Schreier, Bernhard Klee, Hartmut Haenchen, Paul Goodwin, Michael Hofstetter, Lev Markiz and András Schiff. Furthermore, as partner for chamber music and as soloist Hansjörg Albrecht gets regularly invited to European music festivals.

Besides many radio and television recordings in Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, Poland and the USA, he has an exclusive agreement since 2006 with the label Oehms Classics, with whom he has recorded works by Bach, Wagner, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky and Poulenc so far.

In 2010, Hansjörg Albrecht will lead several concerts with the Munich Bach Choir and orchestras such as Münchner Rundfunkorchester (Munich), Münchner Symphoniker (Brixen), Bach Collegium München (Munich, Innsbruck, Rome), Hamburg Sinfonietta (Hamburg, MS Europa), Bach Collegium Stuttgart and Gächinger Kantorei (Stuttgart) as well as at festivals in Nuremberg and Oldenburg. As organist he will perform in cathedrals of Piacenza, Leipzig, Halle, Weimar and many more.

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