Jörg Breiding

Jörg Breiding was born in Hanover in 1972. He received his training in teaching music, singing and German at the University of Music and Drama Hanover. In addition to that he had lessons in choral and orchestral conducting with Professor Gerd Müller-Lorenz (Lübeck) and Professor Heinz Henning (Hanover). After a year spent as an assistant to Professor Heinz Henning, he took over as the conductor of the Knabenchor Hanover in January 2002.
From 1998 to 2005, he taught choral conducting at Lübeck Academy of Music and in April 2005 he was appointed Professor of Choral Conducting/Conducting of Mixed Ensembles at the Folkwang Conservatory in Essen.
Within his concert engagements at national and international festivals, Jörg Breiding worked with famous ensembles like the Baroque Orchestra L` Arco , the Baroque Ensemble Aperto, the Chapel Royal Hanover, the Baroque Orchestra Leipzig, the Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble, members of the NDR-Radio-philharmonic Orchestra and State Orchestra of Lower Saxony. So far several concerts of the Knabenchor Hanover have been recorded and broadcasted by the German radio stations NDR and WDR.
After the recording of Georg Friedrich Handel’s “Messiah” in 2003, the recording of “Grant us peace” by Andreas Hammerschmidt was released two years later. Breiding initiated that those works, which remained unappreciated for 300 years, were put into modern musical notation. They were recorded on CD with the Knabenchor Hanover, the Himmlischen Cantorey and the Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble. This recent, first publication worldwide of “Grant us peace” received the award for classical choral recording of the year at the 2006 ECHO award.