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The German choral conductor and church musician, Pia Praetorius, studied church music at the Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik in Halle (Saale).
Pia Praetorius worked as Kantor in Berlin and Sonthofen. From 1999 to 2017, she was Kantor at St. Egidien - Egidienkirche Nürnberg. Her musical work focuses on early music and new music. The program ideas that have been realized so far range from Latin American Renaissance music to a valuable, as yet unedited, collection of choral works from the 16th century in Nuremberg, as well as multi-media staged performances, dance and opera productions. As part of the Amerika Festival in Nuremberg, she directed the premiere of the Symphony No. 12 by Gloria Coates, which was recorded and Paul Hindemith's Requiem broadcast Bayerischer Rundfunk. Since 2017, she works at Schloss Weißenbrunn in Ebern.
Pia Praetorius has worked together with the video artists Christoph Brech, Ivonne Mohr and Steffen Ruyl Cramer, Ulli Sigg, Stephan Windischmann; the stage directors Claudia Doderer, Carlos Manuel and Cornelia Heger; the light and stage artists Fred Pommerehn and Lutz Deppe; and the choreographers Cayetano Soto and Shang Chi Sun together. A longstanding artistic friendship and co-operation connects her with the wood sculptor Andreas Kuhnlein. She founded the Schola Cantorum Nürnberg, an ensemble specializing in performances of 15th and 16th century music, and the Egidienchor Nürnberg, and enjoys working regularly together with Barockorchester L'arpa festante and Les Cornets Noir as well as other renowned specialists for music of the 16th and 17th centuries.
In addition, Pia Praetorius has been working for many years with the Nuremberg music history of the 16th century u. a. by studying choral books from St. Egidien. Numerous sparsings of unedited works and their reiteration in concerts and church services as well as their documentation on the two previously published CD's have led to a differentiated image of the Nuremberg church music life of that time. Her awards: 2013: Culture Prize of the City of Nuremberg; 2014: Culture Prize of the district Mittelfranken Wolfram von Eschenbach Prize. She currently lives in Ebern, Bavaria.
Discography: "Weihnachtliche Renaissancemusik aus Nürnberger Handschriften" (Spektral-Records 2013); "Maria Magdalena - Renaissancemusik aus Nürnberger Handschriften" (Spektral-Records, 2016). |
