Bertrand Gröger (arr.) Der Mond ist aufgegangen

Bertrand Gröger is the honorary conductor of the Freiburg Jazz Choir, which he founded in 1990 and led for 36 years. With his multi-award-winning choir, he has toured 15 countries across Asia and Europe. Joint concerts and recordings with Bobby McFerrin, Kirby Shaw, Jens Johansen, Roger Treece, Torun Eriksen, Joo Kraus and various orchestras continually broadened his musical horizons.

Gröger has composed and arranged works for, amongst others, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Radio Orchestra, the Swingle Singers, and a large part of the Jazzchor Freiburg’s repertoire. The latest album, *Sacred*, won two top prizes at the Cara Awards (USA) in 2026. Gröger’s “Loop Songs”, released in 2009, became a standard work in the international choral scene. As a conductor, he led the Swiss “Chor Zug” to three first prizes at the international Choir Competition in Riva (Italy); he was director of the Popakademie University Choir in Mannheim for 15 years and, as part of a UN project, conducted a World Children’s Choir comprising 2,000 young people from 115 nations. Gröger is a sought-after workshop leader, adjudicator and author of specialist literature.