Georg Christoph Biller

Georg Christoph Biller (20 September 1955 – 27 January 2022) was a German choral conductor. He conducted the Thomanerchor as the sixteenth Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach from 1992 to 2015. He was also a baritone, an academic teacher, and a composer. Active as Thomaskantor after the German reunification, Biller returned the Thomanerchor to its original focus on church music. He was instrumental in the new buildings for the choir's boarding school, the Forum Thomanum, and in the celebration of its 800th anniversary in 2012.

Life and career Born in Nebra, the son of a pastor, Biller grew up with three siblings. In 2009, he began performances of the six cantatas of Bach's Christmas Oratorio in St. Thomas and St. Nicholas in services for the feast days of the Christmas season as Bach had intended 275 years earlier. In 2012, Biller celebrated the 800th anniversary of the Thomanerchor. He had depression and a serious neurological disease that increasingly limited his motion, J. S. Bach: Johannes-Passion, Marcus Ullmann, Gotthold Schwarz, Ruth Holton, Matthias Rexroth, Henryk Böhm, Thomanerchor, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, conductor Georg Christoph Biller, Rondeau 2007

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Res severa verum gaudium (a round, 2012) Herr, tue meine Lippen auf (Lord, open my lips, 2012/13) Verleih uns Friede (Grant us peace, 2012/13) Hiobs Botschaft (Job's message, 2014/2018) 2012 Echo Klassik