Roland Büchner

Quick Facts

Intro

German choir director

Places

Germany

Choir director Priest

Work field

Religion Music

Gender

Male

Birth

1954

Place of birth

Karlstadt am Main, Germany

Age

71 years

The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Roland Büchner (born 16 February 1954) is a German church musician and conductor. He has been the director (Domkapellmeister [de]) at the Regensburg Cathedral, conducting the boys' choir Regensburger Domspatzen.

Career

Born in Karlstadt, Büchner studied at the Fachakademie für Katholische Kirchenmusik und Musikerziehung [de] in Regensburg and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, with Diethard Hellmann, Godehard Joppich [de], Franz Lehrndorfer and Gerhard Weinberger [de] among others.

He has been from 1994 Domkapellmeister at the Regensburg Cathedral, succeeding Georg Ratzinger. The boys' choir Regensburger Domspatzen (literally: Regensburg Cathedral Sparrows) performs in the liturgy at the cathedral every Sunday during school time, and in concert internationally. Büchner was appointed honorary professor in Regensburg in 2009.

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