Kurt-Christian Stier

Kurt-Christian Stier (3 February 1926 – 31 July 2016 ) was a German violinist and concertmaster.

Life Born in Gütersloh, Stier, son of a pianist and piano teacher, had his first violin lesson at the age of seven. He studied for two years at the and was already at the age of 16 years a substitute in symphony concerts, in opera and operetta performances at the Staatstheater Braunschweig.

After wartime service, he returned from US captivity with serious illness. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, where he passed his Abitur and the supplementary pedagogical examination, and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Willibald Roth, Max Strub and Wilhelm Stross among others. He also accompanied numerous solo musicians. He was co-founder and first violinist of the Munich String Quartet.

Since 1966, he had a teaching position at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, which appointed him professor for violin in 1975. He was also Vice-President of the later Hochschule für Musik München.

Stier was a long-standing member of the board of the Munich Tonkünstlerverband and its first chairman from 1983 to 1997. He was also chairman of the regional committee until 2004 Jugend musiziert.