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The German conductor, Hans-Christoph Rademann, grew up in Kantorenhaus in Schwarzenberg/Erzgebirge. From 1975 to 1983 he was a member of the famous Dresden Kreuzchor. He studied choir and orchestra conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden "Carl Maria von Weber" until 1990.
In 1985, while he was still studying, Hans-Christoph Rademann created the Dresdner Kammerchor, and soon he and the choir made a name for themselves at home and abroad. Since then has been its conductor and artistic director, and won with them numerous prizes and honours. Until 1999 he was also musical director of the Singakademie Dresden, which has one of the richest traditions of Saxon choirs. In 1994 Rademann received the supporting award of the Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Provincial Capital Dresden) for his achievements in the musical life of Dresden. The festival Fest Alter Musik was brought into being on his initiative.
Since August 1999 Hans-Christoph Rademann is also director of Norddeutschen Rundfunk Chor. As the director of the Norddeutschen Rundfunk Chor he has worked together with conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Roger Norrington and Christoph Eschenbach. Furthermore he has co-operated with leading choirs such as Chor des Bayrischen Rundfunks and Chor des Mitteldeutschen Rundfunks, Berliner Rundfunkchor and RIAS-Kammerchor, with orchestras. During recent years he has also made his name as a conductor of symphonic works with choir. He regularly co-operates with various orchestras, such as the Sächsischen Dresden Staatskapelle, the Dresdner Philharmonie, the Dresdner Barockorchester and the Rotterdammer Philharmoniker.
His work focuses on early music, especially on the neglected gems of music history. Numerous CD-productions and premieres of works of Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann Adolf Hasse and Johann David Heinichen and the co-operation with the most important ensembles in the fields of early music such as Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Concerto Köln, Dresdner Barockorchester, Nederlandse Bachvereniging and Collegium Vocale Gent are the result of Rademann’s endeavours. Although his interest applies particularly applies for HIP, his repertoire is versatile and reaches from Renaissance Music up to the Modern times. In 1997 Hans-Christoph Rademann made his debut as an opera conductor with the Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail at the Landesbühnen Sachsen.
Hans-Christoph Rademann ranks among the most demanded German conductors of his generation. In the course of numerous concert tours he appeared at important music festivals in Europe (including Sweden, Finland, Italy, Slovakia and Holland), in the USA, Israel, South Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Uruguay and Japan.
Hans-Christoph Rademann is a professor for choir directing the Dresdner Musikhochschule. In 2000 he was appointed as professor of choir direction at the college of music Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden. |
