![]() Rilling's recording of Krzysztof Penderecki's Credo, commissioned and performed by the Oregon Bach Festival, won the 2001 Grammy Award for best choral performance. Rilling was a teacher of chorale conducting at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule from 1965 to 1989. ![]() Rilling became the Festival Conductor and lecturer at the Toronto Bach Festival in 2004. In 2001 Rilling created the Festival Ensemble to be part of the European Music Festival Stuttgart ("Musikfest Stuttgart"). He also co-founded and led the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart since 1981. Rilling co-founded the Oregon Bach Festival in 1970, and served as its artistic director until 2013. In 1988 he conducted the world premiere of the Messa per Rossini that he also conducted at the Rheingau Musik Festival in 2001, where he has traditionally conducted the final concert. ![]() He has also recorded many romantic and classical choral and orchestral works, including the works of Johannes Brahms. Bach, a monumental task involving well over 1,000 pieces of music - spanning 170 compact discs. He is the first person to have twice prepared and recorded (on modern instruments) the complete choral works of J. He is well known for his performances of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries. He has toured widely with both ensembles. Since 1965 he has conducted the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, which often performs with the Gächinger Kantorei. In 1969, he took over as conductor of the Frankfurter Kantorei (Frankfurt Choir). In 1967 he studied with Leonard Bernstein in New York and in the same year was appointed professor of choral conducting at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, a post which he held until 1985. From 1963 to 1966, and taught organ and choral at the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule, conducting the Spandauer Kantorei (Spandau chorale). Starting in 1957, he was organist and choirmaster at the Stuttgart Gedächtniskirche, conducting the choir Figuralchor der Gedächtniskirche Stuttgart. ![]() While still a student in 1954, he founded his first choir, the Gächinger Kantorei. He completed his studies with Fernando Germani in Rome and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. From 1952 to 1955 he studied organ, composition, and choral conducting at the Stuttgart College of Music. He received his early training at the Protestant Seminaries in Württemberg. ![]()
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