Frieder Bernius is a pillar of choral music culture in Stuttgart, Germany, founding several ensembles and conducting performances that are often historically oriented. He has also conducted orchestral music, and he has an exceptionally large recording catalog.
Bernius was born on June 22, 1947, in Ludwigshafen, in what was then West Germany. His father was a Protestant minister, and his mother was a church musician. Bernius attended a Gymnasium high school in Mannheim and then studied music performance and musicology at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart and the University of Tübi...