Hans-Christoph Rademann now ranks among the most-sought-after choral conductors of his generation. He grew up at Schwarzenberg, Erzgebirge region, where his father served as church music director.
While studying choral and orchestral conducting at Dresden’s College of Music he founded the Dresdner Kammerchor, soon making a name for himself at home and abroad as director of this ensemble. Up to 1999 he was also music director of the Singakademie Dresden, one of the oldest-established choirs in Saxony. As early as 1994 the renowned choral conductor, who also launched the Fest Alter Musik (Ancient Music Festival) in the Erzgebirge, received the Dresden Förderpreis for his services to the city’s musical life.
As choral conductor of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk Hans-Christoph Rademann has worked since 1999 with conductors such as Semion Bychkov, Roger Norrington and Christoph Eschenbach. Guest engagements have led him to direct other leading choirs, notably the choirs of Bayerischer and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, the Rundfunkchor Berlin and the RIAS Kammerchor.
His work focusses on ancient music, especially gems from Dresden’s treasure-trove of music. Many years of intensive study involving a fair number of prestigious instrumental ensembles associated with this kind of music have produced numerous first performances of works by Zelenka, Hasse and Heinichen. These epoch-making rediscoveries have often been released on CD.
Concert tours have taken him to many centres of European musical life, to the United States, Israel, South Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Uruguay and Japan. In 2000 Hans-Christoph Rademann was named professor of choral conducting at Dresden’s Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber.
