Roderich Kreile

Roderich Kreile (born 1956) is a German Lutheran church musician, choir director and university teacher. He had been the director of the Dresdner Kreuzchor at the Kreuzkirche, Dresden, as the 28th Kreuzkantor since the Reformation from 1997 until his retirement in 2022.

Life and work

Born 1956, Kreile studied church music and choral conducting in Munich. In 1981, he became a cantor at the Christ Church in Munich. and an advisory board member of the International Heinrich Schütz Society.

Since 1997, Kreile has been the 28th Kreuzkantor since the Reformation.

Recordings Kreile has recorded with the Dresdner Kreuzchor music written for Dresden, such as cantatas for Pentecost and a St John Passion which his predecessor the 15th Kreuzkantor Gottfried August Homilius composed for the Frauenkirche in Dresden.