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The German counter-tenor, conductor, organist and harpsichordist, Hansjörg Albrecht, was a member of the choir of the Kreuzkirche in Dresden from 1981 to 1991 and received his formative organ instruction there too. Following that he went for seven years to St. Michael‘s in Hamburg, where he was the assistant organist. He studied church music and organ in Hamburg and Cologne with St. Michael‘s organist Gerhard Dickel and with Thierry Mechler (Lyon). Scholar of the Rudolf-Mauersberger-Stiftung from the choir of the Kreuzkirche.
In 1995 Hansjörg Albrecht took in charge the musical organization and direction of the ”Friday Night Music” in St. Michael’s Hamburg. This chamber music series, which can be heard throughout the whole year, had then just been inaugurated. Especially for this series he founded an ensemble with whom he has performed cantatas, concerts and chamber music ever since then.
Hansjörg Albrecht has been a freelance organist and harpsichordist since 1998. He gave organ recitals in Germany (amongst others in Hamburg, Berlin, Wiesbaden, Erfurt, Freiberg, Halle/Saale, Rostock, Osnabrück, ), USA (incuding St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York), France (Lyon), Poland (Posnan), Norway (Bergen), Finland (Kuhmo-Festival), Latvia (Riga) and the Czech Republic (Prag). As organist and harpsichordist he appeared in Dresden (Frauenkirche, Philharmonie), Berlin, (Konzerthaus), Munich (Philharmonie, Prinzregententheater), Halle (Händel Festival), Göttingen (Händel Festival), Frankfurt/Main (Cathedral), Mozartfestival, Schwetzingen, Leipzig (St. Thomas’ Church), Hamburg (Musikhalle), Cologne (Philharmonie), Schwäbisch Gmünd (Festival of Europ Church-Music), Magdeburg (Cathedral), Frankfurt/Oder (Concerthall), Görlitz (St. Peter und Paul) and Stuttgart (Liederhalle).
Hansjörg Albrecht gave concerts as a guest in New York (Carnegie Hall), Los Angeles (Opera), Rome (Santa Caecilia), Florence (Teatro Communale), Venezia (San Marco), Helsinki (Taivallahtii (”Rock”) Church and Finnish National Opera),Chambermusic-Festival Kuhmo, Oulu, Naantali (Finland), Copenhague (Concert Hall of the Tivoli), Geneve (Victoria-Concerthall), Zürich (Tonhalle), Chambermusic-Festival Hopfgarten (Tirol) as well as on tours through Spain, Madrid (Auditorio Nacional de Musica) and Israel.
Hansjörg Albrecht enjoyed collaborations with the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, Dresdner Philharmonie, the Norddeutschen Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, New Bach Collegium Musicum Leipzig, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Finnish National-Opera Helsinki, Tivoli Symphony Orchestra Copenhague, Santa Caecilia Rome, Orchestre del Maggio Musicale Firenze, Orquesta Nacional de Espana, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Camerata Academica Salzburg, Orchestra of St. Luke’s New York, Opera Orchestra Los Angeles, Chamber orchestra C.Ph.E.Bach Berlin and the Ensemble Semper Brass. Also the Rundfunkchor Berlin, Dresdner Kreuzchor, Monteverdi Chor Hamburg, the Choir of the Bavarian Radio. Conductors he has worked with include Heribert Beissel, Michael Gläser, Hartmut Haenchen, Bernhard Klee, András Schiff, Peter Schreier, Gothart Stier. He has formed partnerships with the organist Matthias Eisenberg and the tenor Peter Schreier.
As conductor Hansjörg Albrecht has worked with the Munich Bach Choir, Hamburg Baroque Orchestra and the New Elbland Philharmonie. From September 2005 he is musical director (and conductor) of the Munich Bach Choir. |
