Qualifications and References                                Teaching Activities


Qualifications and References

 

2006:              state recognition test for choir directors in amateur music making (vocational school for music in Kronach) 

2008 - 2011: singing training with Oleg Dynov (graduate of the Lunatscharski State University of Moscow)

2009:              Letter of recommendation from the Meiningen State Theater (chorister)

2011:              Letter of recommendation from the Landestheater Coburg (chorister)

2012 - 2018 feb: deputy district choir director of the Coburg-Kronach-Lichtenfels singing group

2012 - 2018 feb: member of the district board and music committee of the Coburg-Kronach-Lichtenfels singing group

2013:              appointed deputy choir director of the Coburg Chamber Choir

2015:              specialist advisor "Die Carusos" (www.die-carusos.de) for child-friendly singing in kindergartens and day care centers                                             (German Choir Association)

2016:              re-election as deputy district choir director of the Coburg-Kronach-Lichtenfels singing group

                         and 2018 feb: voluntary departure from office

 

ABRSM (The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music / London)

1)       2018:       Practical Musicianship - Grade 5: "passed with distinction"                         

                                           examination location: Munich/Ottobrunn, December 1, 2018     

2)       2019:       Music Theory - Grade 5: "passed with distinction"                                                   

                                           examination location: Munich/Ottobrunn, June 15, 2019 

3)       2019:       Music Theory - Grade 6 :  "passed with merit"                                                                     

                                           examination location: Munich/Ottobrunn, November 2, 2019

4)       2020:       Music Theory - Grade 7 :  "passed with merit"                                                              

                                           examination location: Munich/Ottobrunn, November 7, 2020

5)       2021:       Piano Performance - Grade 6 :  "passed with merit"                                                    

                                           examination location: video recording on the own instrument, August 21, 2021

6)       2022:       Piano Performance - Grade 7 :  "pass"                                                                                     

                                            examination location: video recording on the own instrument, August 24, 2022                                                                                

 


Teaching Activities

 

 

1996 – 2002: freelance piano and keyboard lessons at Musikhaus Kiederle in Coburg (individual and group lessons)

2010 - 2024:   many voice training an breathing technique courses for adult generation centers and the Franconian                                                    Singers´ Association

2011 - 2015:  freelance keyboard and guitar lessons at the DSZ Coburg (diaconic-social center for physically and/or mentally                                impaired children)

2011 - 2017:  freelance piano, keyboard and guitar lessons at the music institute and music theatre "BIMM"

2018 - 2019:  guitar group lessons in freelance-work in the multi-generational-house in Coburg

since 2018:    completely indipendent

 

 

 

 


Stages of my musical career

 

1983/84: chorister in the mixed choir of the Albertinum music high school in Coburg with Gerhard Deutschmann

1995 Nov: piano performance at the "International Sonneberg Jazz Days"

1997 April: piano performance at the "Greens" party conference in Lichtenfels

2005 - 2006: active singer of the selection choir "Mixtura Cantorum"

2009 September – 2010 January: chorister (rehearsals and performances) in the 1st tenor of the opera choir of the

          Meiningen State Theater Chorsänger (("Guglielmo Tell" by Gioacchino Rossini)

2010 June – August: chorister in the summer operetta "My Fair Lady", forest stage Heldritt)

2010 - 2012: chorister in the extra choir of the "Landestheater Coburg" („Evita“, „Otello“, „the Bartered Bride“) 

2011 Juni – August: chorister in the summer operetta "Viktoria and her Husar", forest stage Heldritt

2011 - 2013: active singer of the "Coburg Chamber Choir"

2012: tenor soloist at the "Coburg Museum Night" in Tambach Castle: "Portrait Aire" ("The Magic Flute" by W.A. Mozart)

2012, June 16: performance by the childrens´ music group (children with physical and/or mental disabilities) from the DSZ Coburg            (diaconic-social center) at the "Annual Concert of Young Talents" in the giant hall of the Coburg Ehrenburg

2015, June, 26: performance by the childrens´ choir of the Creidlitz primary school at the award ceremony of "3rd Coburg                          European Price" in the giant hall of the Coburg Ehrenburg. The school had previously won this award. The patronage was              taken over by Hubertus, Hereditary Prince of Saxony - Coburg and Gotha.

2015, October 24: choir concert Coburg - Gotha because of the "Museum Night"  in the Gotha Insurance Museum

          Participating choirs: chamber choir "Cantabile" under the direction of Sybille Sommer and the "Saint-Gobain-Singers".

          The patronage was taken over by Stephanie, Princess of Saxony - Coburg and Gotha, Mayor Norbert Tessmer (Coburg),                 Mayor Knut Kreuch (Gotha) and Mayor Marco Steiner (Rödental)

2017, July 9: performance of the community choir composed of: gospel choir "newSpirit" (Ahorn), "Saint-Gobain-Singers"                           (Rödental) and the singing club "Waldeslust Spittelstein" at the "Bundessingen 2017" in Coburg. 

               The performance in the Congress Hall of Coburg was recorded by "Bavarian Radio"

2017, December 15: performance of the school choir of the Pestalozzi primary school at the farewell of

          school district director Werner Löffler in the"large meeting room" of the Coburg district office.

2019, March 26: performance of the school choir of the Pestalozzi primary school at the inauguration of Dr. Kräußlein-Leib as the              new school councilor in the"large meeting room" of the Coburg district office.

2019, August 25: performance of the "Saint-Gobain-Singers" in Rosenau Castle (Marble Hall)

          on the occasion of the "Prinz-Albert-Jubilee"

2019, October 12: choir concert of the "Saint-Gobain-Singers" and the Spittelstein choir in the Rödental Town Hall.

 

 


Choir work

 

 

I currently conduct the following choirs:

 

Saint-Gobain-Singers Rödental and the

church choir of the protestant community of Sonnefeld

 

 

 

 

Primary school choirs 2012 - 2019 (Corona):

 

Hermann-Grosch-School Weitramsdorf

Pestalozzi primary school Coburg

Creidlitz primary school

Coburg-Neuses primary school

Primary school Heubischer Strasse in Neustadt