J\u00fcrgen Fassbender studied German and music. He gained valuable experience for his choral work with further education by Eric Ericson, Werner Pfaff, Frieder Bernius, Wolfgang Sch\u00e4fer as well as during his co-operation with semi-professional groups, e.g. the \u201cVokalensemble Frankfurt\u201c, the Chamber Choir Stuttgart and \u201cStudio Vocale\u201c Karlsruhe (all Germany).
\nToday Mr. Fassbender works as conductor of several qualified choirs.<\/p>\n
Besides numerous first prizes at international contests (among others in Italy, the Czech Republic, Argentina, the Netherlands and together with \u201cCantabile\u201c Limburg at the International Radio Contest \u201cLet The Peoples Sing\u201c in 1995), he was honored several times with a special award of the jury for exceptional artistic achievements. At the German Competition of Choirs in Fulda in 1994 he won with both his choirs \u201cCarpe diem\u201c and \u201cCantabile\u201c Limburg the first prize in the men choirs\u2019 and the first prize in the female choirs\u2019 contest \u2013 a case without precedence in the history of this competition \u2013 and received a mark of distinction for the outstanding interpretation of a contemporary choral work.<\/p>\n
In 1995, Mr. Fassbender won a scholarship from the German Musical Council and obtained on the occasion of the First European Choral Symposium in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and invitations to the master classes of Eric Ericson. He has received numerous invitations as a jury member at national and international choral contests, guest conductor of the Youths\u2019 Choir of Rhineland-Palatinate or assistant professor (Rhineland-Palatinate Academy of Music, Bavarian Choir Union, Musica Mundi and others) as well as several CD productions and recordings for radio and television are to be mentioned additionally.
\nJ\u00fcrgen Fassbender is a member of the Federal Music Committee of the Hessian Singers\u2019 Union, of the Musical Council of the German Centre for Choral Music and of the Literature Committee of the German Choral Contest.<\/p>\n
In 1997 J\u00fcrgen Fassbender was conductor of the German-Polish Choral Academy \u201ein terra pax\u201c.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
J\u00fcrgen Fassbender J\u00fcrgen Fassbender studied German and music. He gained valuable experience for his choral work with further education by Eric Ericson, Werner Pfaff, Frieder Bernius, Wolfgang Sch\u00e4fer as well as during his co-operation with semi-professional groups, e.g. the \u201cVokalensemble … Continue reading