Matthias Grünert

Matthias Grünert was born in Nuremberg in 1973. He took an advanced course in church music and majored in organ performance in Bayreuth and at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, studying with Hartmut Rohmeyer and others. He also attended courses with F. Tagliavini, J. Laukvik, M. Radulescu and others. While studying, he was an assistant at Lübeck Cathedral and worked as a church musician at St. Petri in the health resort of Bosau (Schleswig-Holstein). From 2000–05 he was city and district choirmaster at St. Marien in Greiz, and in 2003 performed the complete organ works of Bach. In 2004 Matthias Grünert was appointed principal choirmaster at the Frauenkirche in Dresden, and since 2005 has been artistic director with responsibility for all church music events there. He has founded a large choir of 120 singers, the Kammerchor der Frauenkirche and the ensemble frauenkirche, comprising musicians from the Sächsische Staatskapelle and the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. He has won prizes in several organ competitions, given concerts as an organist, conductor and keyboard player in Germany and abroad, and made many CD, television and radio recordings.