Steffen Schreyer

Born in 1969; Steffen Schreyer is a conductor and choral director. After his diploma in church music (A) and in the concert course for organ at the Musikhochschule München, he deepened his choral conducting in a two-year master class course at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm; with the master class diploma in 1997 he received the “Belöningsjeton”, the medal of the Musical Academy. In Stockholm he worked as a freelance choral conductor with the Swedish Radio Choir, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir and the WDR-Rundfunkchor Köln, and from 1997 he was cathedral organist at the Catholic cathedral of St. Erik. In November 2001 he was appointed professor of choral conducting at the Katholische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik St. Gregorius Aachen, where he was responsible for the conducting training. He was minster cantor at the Konstanzer Münster and principal conductor of the Slovenian Chamber Choir, founded the Ensemble Europäische Vokalsolisten and taught choral conducting at the music academies in Detmold, Freiburg, Munich and Düsseldorf. Since 2021 he has been cathedral music director in Essen. In 2004 he directed the recording of Michael Denhoff’s “Credo” for Cybele.