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The German choral conductor, organist and arranger, Gregor Meyer, studied at Clara-Wieck-Gymnasium Zwickau (Class of 1997). He studied choral conducting and church music at the Studied at Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig (Class of 2007). He studied there Church Music with Arvid Gast, Roland Börger and Martin Schmeding, and pursued further studies in Choral Conducting with Morten Schuldt-Jensen. In addition, he was awarded a scholarship by the Friends of the Leipzig Academy of Music and Theater.
It was during this period that Gregor Meyer founded the Leipzig Vocal Consort the fall of 1999 and established the soloist ensembles Concerto Sacro and Opella Musica. He has performed as a guest artist with many well-known ensembles. In addition he is much in demand as a continuo organist and arranger. He became Director of Leipzig’s GewandhausChor in the fall of 2007. In this post, he has worked with conductors of the stature of Riccardo Chailly, Lothar Zagrosek, Herbert Blomstedt, Trevor Pinnock, Dennis Russell Davies and Christopher Hogwood and with such orchestras as the Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig, Camerata Lipsiensis and Merseburger Hofmusik.
His busy concert schedule has taken him to the Leipzig's Thomaskirche, Dresden’s Kreuzkirche, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Komische Oper and Schauspielhaus Berlin, at the Rheingau and Schleswig-Holstein Music Festivals, as well as on concert tours to Italy, China and New Zealand. Appearances on radio and television and CD recordings (Naxos, Rondeau, Querstand) round out his artistic profile.
In the meantime Gregor Meyer also conveys his experience as a choral conductor to students. Since early 2010 he has taught choral conducting at the Lutheran School of Church Music in Halle.
Besides choral conducting, Gregor Meyer is also a versatile arranger, e.g. for the Calmus Ensemble Leipzig and the Ensemble Amarcord. |
