Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller

Thomas Cantor Georg Christoph Biller was himself a chorister in the famous St. Thomas’s Boys Choir Leipzig under Erhard Mauersberger and Hans-Joachim Rotzsch and was appointed the sixteenth cantor after Johann Sebastian Bach in 1992. As a student of the Leipziger Hochschule für Musik, Biller studied orchestral conducting with Rolf Reuter and Kurt Masur and singing with Bernd Siegfried Weber.

After having been Choral Director of the Leipziger Gewandhauschor from 1980 to 1991, he was appointed Professor of Choral Conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig in 1994 and has been teaching again in Detmold since 2005.

Biller has won several prizes both as a conductor and as a singer and has appeared as a guest conductor with a number of choirs and orchestras of renown. As a singer of both lieder and oratorios, he gives numerous concerts both in Germany and abroad and has frequently appeared as a soloist together with the St. Thomas’s Boys Choir. His solo career has taken him to Asia, the USA and all over Europe.

Deeply committed to a choral tradition that began with the Gregorian chant and is being continued even day, Biller already has several radio and television broadcasts and CD recordings to his name. His discography includes several recordings with the St. Thomas’s Boys Choir both for Universal/Philips Classics and for Rondeau Production as well.