Clemens Bergemann
Choir conducting
Clemens Bergemann (conductor), as the son of the conductor Ernst Bergemann, received a well-founded musical education at an early age. After studies at the Dr. Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main, he studied School Music and Conducting at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg under Prof. Klaus Peter Seibel and Prof. Klaus Vetter. Master classes with Lazlo Heltay - England (1992), Gábor Hollerung - Hungary (1998) and Robert Griton (2006) complemented his training. As part of his efforts to acquire knowledge as a children's choir conductor, he spent five years as an assistant to Jürgen Luhn at the Hamburg Alsterspatzen.
His studies were complemented by the annual symposia on child and youth voices at the University of Leipzig. Clemens Bergemann directed several opera projects at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Hamburg, including Boris Blacher's "Abstract Opera," Kurt Weill's "The Tsar has his Photograph Taken" Jacques Offenbach's "Under the Lamp", and as part of a free opera project, Claudio Monteverdi's "The Coronation of Poppea ". In 1996, Clemens Bergemann took over the Philharmonia Chor Hamburg, which he has successfully conducted for fourteen years and with which he has performed numerous works of oratory literature.
In 1999, he founded the Musica Viva Chamber Choir and together with his wife, the Hamburg children's choir Cantemus. In 2009, the concert choir Incantare, the junior choir of the Hamburg children's choir Cantemus, was created. All three choirs work together under the name Chorakademie Hamburg and regularly work on exceptional projects, which are performed at prestigious concert venues such as the Hamburg Laeiszhalle. The collaboration with the young composers has resulted in numerous world premiers for the ensembles and brought fame to the choirs far beyond Hamburg's borders. His projects, in combination with his activities as senior teacher at the Rahlstedt Grammer School, are an indispensable asset to Hamburg's music life.