About
Frieder Bernius is a German conductor, the founder and director of the chamber choir Kammerchor Stuttgart, founded in 1968.
Frieder Bernius' great success in Germany and abroad encouraged him to proceed in this style of interpretation. With the Kammerchor Stuttgart he won prizes at several international competitions. He received invitations from all over the world and made, for example, a tour of the Far East in 1988 and of the USA in 1989. He is a guest conductor at all Germany and in many European radio stations and conducts his ensembles at many important musical festivals.
Many of Frieder Bernius' recordings, which now amount to over 40, have been awarded the Vierteljahrespreis der Deutchen Shallplattenkritik (Quarterly Award of the German Record Critics) and the Prädikat des Deutchen Shallplattenpreises (Predicate of the German Record Prize). In May 1990 he received the Edison Prize (Holland) for his recording of Symphoniae Sacrare IIIHeinrich Schütz with the Musica Fiata Köln. In November of the same year he won the Diapason d'or (France) for his recording of of the 'Missa Dei Filii' by Jan Dismas Zelenka with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra