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Born: Germany
Peter Neumann studied church music, conducting and the organ in Berlin and Paris. Alongside choral music of the Romantic period, the focus of his work with his two vocal ensembles, the Cologne Chamber Choir and the Kartäuserkantorei, is on Early Music, in which he has made a particular name for himself through performances of numerous oratorios by Georg Friedrich Händel – at festivals including the Turin Settembre Musica, the Flanders Festival and the Wratislawia Cantans – and the major choral works of J.S. Bach – for example with the B minor Mass (BWV 232) at the BBC Promenade concerts in 1993. Concert tours have taken him to almost all the countries of Europe and to Japan.
Outstanding among his CD recordings are the complete masses of Mozart, and Schumann’s Missa sacra, which won the Diapason d’Or. His live recording of Händel’s Saul was widely praised in the musical press.
He has worked with such ensembles as Musica Antiqua Köln, the Capella Agostino Steffani and Concerto Köln, and has conducted the Collegium Cartusianum, which he formed in 1988, at numerous performances, for example, in May 1996 at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw with Mozart’s Il Re pastore.
He has been guest conductor of the Dutch Chamber Choir, the Chorus of Südfunk broadcasting organization, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Tokyo Schola Cantorum and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. In the series ‘250 Years of Händel’s Oratorios’, which he initiated, he is performing (following Händel’s 1749-1751 schedule) nine masterpieces by this great musical dramatist.
Source: Liner notes to the 2-CD album ‘Bach: Passio secundum Johannem’ conducted by Peter Neumann (MDG, 2000)
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