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The German choral conductor and organist, Andreas Fischer, studied at the Hochschule fur Musik and Theater in Munich, specialising in church music, organ and conducting. His teachers included Franz Lehrndorfer (organ), Gitti Pirner (piano), Roderich Kreile (choral conducting) and Hanns-Martin Schneidt (symphony conducting), whose assistant he was with the Münchener Bach-Chor and the Hochschute fur Musik from 1989 to 1993. In 1997, he won 3rd prize at the Gottfried Silbermann Organ Competition in Freiburg.
As the Music Director of the Hauptkirche Sankt Katharinen, Andreas Fischer upholds the organ music traditions dating back to the Middle Ages. As well as performing the organ during divine worship and at concerts, he Fischer also conducts the church's large chorus, Kantorei St. Katharinen. Since his appointment in 1994, the musician and this chorus have performed many significant choral works including every oratorio and most cantatas by J.S. Bach in addition to such works as L.v. Beethoven's Missa solemnis and the Requiems by W.A. Mozart, Verdi and Benjamin Britten.
Andreas Fischer has toured throughout Germany and abroad, performing the harpsichord and the organ. He has appeared on numerous occasions with Hamburger Camerata under Max Pommer. As an organist he frequently tours with the Hamburger Symphoniker, collaborating with such conductors as Jeffrey Tate, Muhai Tang and Andrey Boreyko.
2005 saw the release of a recording of works by J.S. Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Heinrich Scheidemann and Reincken performed by Andreas Fischer on the Silbermann organ in Freiburg. A recording of works by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, J.H. Scheidemann, Johann Adam Reincken, J.S. Bach and Holler performed on the restored organ of the Hauptkirche Sankt Katharinen came in 2009. |
