Biography Klaus Mader

Biography - References

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• Born 1974 in Ostercappeln, near Osnabruck
• Classical guitar with Wolfgang Weigel, Musikhochschule Detmold at Münster
• Renaissance lute and chitarrone with Paul Beier, Civica Scuola Musica di Milano
• Basso continuo with Professor Roberto Gini, Civica Scuola Musica di Milano
• Baroque lute and basso continuo with Professor Konrad Junghänel, Musikhochschule Köln (Cologne)

Klaus Mader is much sought-after as a basso continuo player and he has performed in many productions, including:

• “La Liberazione di Ruggiero”- an opera by Francesca Caccini, in Vilnius, (Lithuania)
  Conductor: Professor Roberto Gini
• “St. Casimiro” an oratorio by Alessandro Scarlatti, in Vilnius, (Lithuania)
  Conductor: Professor Roberto Gini
• “Il ritorno di Giulio Cesare” – an opera by Giovanni Bononcini in Cologne
  Conductor: Professor Konrad Junghänel
• St John’s Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach in Cologne with the Cologne Cathedral Choir
  Conductor: Professor Eberhard Metternich
  

  Currently Klaus Mader is involved in the internetproject Orfeo07 .

  Both with his ensemble, “mosaic coelln” and with the international group of players, “Impetus Musicus” Klaus Mader brings colourful and varied programmes to the stage. He is also a member of the ensemble, “aestetica-nova” directed by Renato Rozic, a group which performs crossover projects with improvisatorial elements.

  Performances with ensembles and solo recitals have taken him to MDR-Musiksommer in Köthen, the Festival Banchetto Musicale in Vilnius (Lithuania), the Festival for Music and Musicians in Ispden, England, as well as to Russia, Italy, Latvia and the Netherlands.