Effective period / Period of releases: 1996

Christian-Markus Raiser, german organist, composer and church music director.

Christian-Markus Raiser was born 1962 in Eschental. 1982 he started to study Sacred Music in Stuttgart and Trossingen. As an organist he studied with Jon Laukvik, Gerd Witte and Zsigmond Szathmary. He also took harpsichord lessons from Helga Kirwald and Kenneth Gilbert and studied directing with Dieter Kurz and Manfred Schreier.
From 1986 until 1991 he worked as "Kantor" in Renningen. He graduated in 1990.
From 1995 until 2000 he taught at the "Hochschule für Kirchenmusik" in Heidelberg.
He played at numerous international music festivals and did various recordings for radio and tv-stations. Being "Kantor" at the "Stadtkirche" in Karlsruhe he also directs Bach-Choir (www.bachchorkarlsruhe.de/) and the "Coro Piccolo" (www.coropiccolo.de/).

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