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Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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The Choir of the Bavarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra celebrated its 50th
anniversary in 1996. Its artistic development
has been parallel to that of the
Bavarian RSO, whose principle conductor
is always principle conductor of the choir.
This means that the ensemble was not only
decisively shaped by its choral conductors
(Josef Kugler, Kurt Prestel, Wolfgang Schubert,
Heinz Mende and Josef Schmidhuber,
Gordon Kember and Hans-Peter Rauscher)
but also by its principle conductors Eugen
Jochum, Rafael Kubelik, Sir Colin Davis
and Lorin Maazel. Since 1990, Michael
Gläser has been the artistic director of the
choir, which he has presented in Munich’s
Prinzregententheater since the 1998/99
season with his own subscription concert
series – in addition to the choir’s continuing
responsibilities singing with the Bavarian
RSO and Munich RSO. The ensemble is
esteemed throughout the world due to its
exceptional degree of homogeneity as well
as great stylistic range, which extends from
Medieval motets to contemporary works.
It regularly appears with top European
orchestras, and celebrated its USA debut
last year in New York with the American
Symphony Orchestra under Leon Botstein.
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Sopran · soprano
Bettina Baumgartner
Claudia Bertz
Hilke Brosius
Simona Brüninghaus
Almut Cech
Valentine Deschenaux
Priska Eser-Streit
Susanne Evans
Barbara Fleckenstein
Masako Goda
Helene Grabenhorst
Margarethe Grintz
Stefanie Gross
Margit Kinzel
Isolde Mitternacht
Sonja Philippin
Monika Schmitt
Isabella Stettner
Atsuko Suzuki
Cordula Wieland
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Alt · alto
Jutta Bethsold
Theresa Blank
Ute Feuerecker
Stefanie Früh
Constance Heller
Susanne Langner
Goldrun Losseau
Barbara Müller
Jutta Neumann
Henrike Paede
Marion Rambausek
Adelheid Schiller
Sabine Staudinger
Gisela Uhlmann
Hanne Weber
Gabriele Weinfurter
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Tenor · tenor
Robert Blank
Hans-Werner Bunz
Markus Dill-Roberts
Lorenz Fehenberger
Roland Kandlbinder
Johannes Klügling
Raimund Mlnarschick
Andreas Mogl
Anton Rosner
Andreas Schulist
Edmund Steinberger
Manuel Warwitz
Heinrich Weber
Theodor Weimer
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Bass · bass
Kai Bischoff
Ernst Buscagne
Christoph Dobmeier
Matthias Ettmayr
Gerald Häußler
Paul Hansen
Tim Hennis
Rudolf Hillebrand
Wolfgang Klose
Delf Lammers
Burkhard Friedrich Mayer
Sebastian Myrus
Matthias Nenner
Matthias Reimer
Thomas Ruf
Dankwart Siegele
Wilfried Vorwold
Patrick Weglehner
Jürgen Weiß
Timo Zimmer
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Michael Gläser
There are two things that Michael
Gläser particularly loves about his
choir: its warmth and homogeneity, and
its high degree of stylistic flexibility.  At the
same time, these are the cornerstones
of the exceptional success characterizing
Michael Gläser’s 13 years of work with
the Choir of the Bavarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra. “We’re really intertwined with
each other,” Gläser says about his relationship
with his singers. Both sides are
very happy that the choral conductor has
extended his contract as artistic director of
the choir until September 2005.
Gläser decided at a very young age
that he wanted to go into voice and choral
conducting. Born in Chemnitz, he was a
member of the Leipzig St. Thomas Boys’
Choir from 1967 until 1978, also taking on
conducting duties as head boy during this
time. He then studied voice and conducting
in Leipzig and Berlin and took on other
activities as a choral conductor, including
appearances with the Leipzig Conservatory
Choir, Leipzig Gewandhaus Choir, the
Berlin Singakademie and the Leipzig Radio
Symphony Choir, with which he also sang.
In 1986, Michael Gläser was appointed
conducting assistant at the Berlin Radio
Symphony Choir before assuming the position
in 1990 that he holds today. His central
tasks include preparing the choir for performances
with both orchestras of the Bavarian
Radio Symphony. In addition, he has
presented his own series of subscription
concerts in Munich’s Prinzregententheater
since 1998. The highlights of these until
now have been performances of Bach’s
Christmas Oratorio, the 100th Psalm by Max
Reger as well as Sergei Rachmaninov’s
All-Night Vigil (Vespers). In September of
this year, Michael Gläser held a first-time
forum for choir directors, giving young conductors
the opportunity to gain experience
with professional ensembles. The forum
also gives Gläser the chance to expand his
teaching interests: in addition to his position
as artistic director of the Bavarian RSO
Choir, he has been a professor for choral
conducting and head of the department of
protestant church music at the Academy
for Theater and Music in Munich since
1994. Guest appearances with renowned
German choirs complete the spectrum of
this multi-facetted musician.
Theresa Blank
Theresa Blank completed her music
degree at the Karlsruhe Music Conservatory
and the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv.
Among her renowned teachers are such
singers as Marga Schiml, Tamar Rachum
and Charlotte Lehmann. She debuted as
Fjodor in Boris Gudonov at the New Israeli
Opera in Tel Aviv under the direction of Gary
Bertini. This was followed by further guest
appearances in Germany and Italy, where
she sang Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Orlofsky
(Die Fledermaus) and Dorabella (Così fan
tutte), among others. She also sang Deidamia
in the highly praised premiere of W. A.
Schulz’s Achill unter den Mädchen at the
Kassel State Theater. Theresa Blank has
also proven her abilities as a concert soloist
at important music festivals such as the
International Organ Days in Nuremberg,
the International Music Festival in Jerusalem
and the Rheingau Musikfestival. She
has also been awarded first and second
prizes at international music competitions
(Vienna International Music Competition,
International Hilde Zadek Vocal Competition,
Meistersinger Competition, Nuremberg).
Theresa Blank has been a member
of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Choir since 2000.
Anton Rosner
Tenor Anton Rosner has been associated
with the Choir of the Bavarian
Radio Symphony Orchestra for 40 years,
singing in it longer than any other choir
member. Shortly after graduating from secondary
school – the Gymnasium of the
Regensburg Domspatzen – he sang the first
and only professional audition of his career
and was immediately accepted by Rafael
Kubelik, who was the principal conductor
of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
and Choir at the time. Anton Rosner
has always placed ensemble work at the
center of his artistic activities; for this
reason he has only accepted work which
promotes the overall vocal sound of his
ensemble. He has thus regularly sung solo
roles in oratorios such as the evangelist in
the Bach passions, but avoids opera. He
has always dedicated himself to singing in
small ensembles such as vocal quartets or
quintets as well. Anton Rosner looks back
with gratitude on many rewarding years of
activity with the Bavarian Radio Symphony,
years which have enabled him a multitude
of unique musical and concert experiences
with world-famous conductors and singers
of the past and present.
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