British conductor Marcus Creed has spent the bulk of his career in Germany, working with some of its most prestigious choral and instrumental ensembles and as a professor at the Musikhochschule in Köln. He has recorded prolifically, and his interests embrace a spectrum of music that includes composers as diverse as Bach, Handel, and Mozart to Stockhausen, Messiaen, and Kurtág, in the fields of choral music, oratorio, opera, chamber music, and orchestral music.
Creed was born on April 19, 1951, in Eastbourne, England. He was educated at King's College in Cambridge, Christ Chur...