Winfried Toll

Winfried Toll is among Germany's most versatile musicians, noted as a choral conductor, composer, educator, and sometime singer. The longtime conductor of the Camerata Vocale Freiburg, he has also led several other top choirs in western Germany. Toll was born in 1955 in Dorsten, in West Germany's industrial North Rhine-Westphalia state. He received a classical secondary school education at the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck boarding school and went on for studies in theology and philosophy at universities in Münster and Freiburg. After passing his university exams, Toll de...