Hans-Christoph Rademann

Conductor Hans-Christoph Rademann is an internationally sought-after interpreter with a wide repertoire, ranging from the rediscovery of early music to premieres of contemporary works. He specialises in composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Heinrich Schütz. He has recorded Schütz’s complete choral works for the Carus Verlag label. In the 2023/24 season he performed all the cantatas from Bach’s first yearly cycle as Kantor of St. Thomas’s Leipzig with the Gaechinger Cantorey, and the recordings were released on Hänssler Classic.

He founded the Dresdner Kammerchor which he led to international fame. He was director of the Singakademie Dresden, chief conductor of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk Chorus, and conductor of the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin. In 2013, he was appointed Akademie Director of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart as successor to Helmuth Rilling. He refounded its resident ensemble, the Gaechinger Cantorey, as a period instrument ensemble. With the “BachBewegt!” programme he has expanded an extensive educational programme at the Bachakademie Stuttgart, unique of its kind.

Guest performances have taken him all over the world – to North and South America, China, Japan, India, Sri Lanka and to almost all the European centres of music. He is regularly invited to conduct leading ensembles such as the Netherlands Bach Ensemble, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Stuttgart Philharmonic.

He has been awarded numerous prizes for his artistic work and his social engagement, including the Saxon Constitutional Medal, the Art Prize of the City of Dresden, the European Church Music Prize and the George Frideric Handel Ring 2025.