Peter Stieber

Peter Stieber, born in Salzburg, studied musicology, German language and literature, and theater at the Free University and the Technical University in Berlin. He also studied singing at the Berlin Academy of Music. He worked as a freelance music journalist and, from 1982, as an editor at Süddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart, where he headed the art music department from 1991. From 1998 to 2012 he was Artistic Director and Managing Director of the Schwetzingen SWR Festival and Head of the classical music department of SWR Rheinland-Pfalz. He has also been a juror for the German Record Critics' Award since 1985. Peter Stieber has been President of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Music Council since 2012 and Chairman of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Music Academy since 2018. He has long been involved with the work of the German Music Council: as a member of the Executive Committee since 2013, Chairman of the Federal Media Committee since 2015, and as a member of the council’s Strategy Commission and Federal Labor and Social Affairs Committee.

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Musicians can sing or play in the ensembles of the German Music Council, the Federal Youth Orchestra, the Federal Jazz Orchestra and the Federal Youth Choir, and take part in competitions. With four other projects in the area of promotion, the German Music Council supports young, highly talented musicians, conductors, composers and interpreters of contemporary music as well as pop musicians on their way to a professional musical life and builds a bridge between musicians, organizers and the public. In addition, the German Music Information Center (miz) offers a central information point on all topics of musical life.

 

 

The German Music Council is the sponsor of the competitions for children and young people: Jugend musiziert and Jugend jazzt, the competitions for professional musicians: the German Music Competition, the German Conducting Award (formerly the German Conducting Prize) and the German Choral Conducting Award, as well as the competitions for amateur musicians: theGerman Choir Competition and the German Orchestra Competition.

The German Music Council (Deutscher Musikrat e. V.) is the mouthpiece and initiator of music policy issues for its members.

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Promoting young musicians in the ensemblesof the German Music Council also includes performing on stage in front of an audience. The project leaders are happy to accept requests for engagements. The German Music Competition concert promotion program arranges approximately 200 concerts a year for concert organizers and concert series.

Music educators will find concepts and working materials for music lessons at the Podium Gegenwart's educational projects. Current developments in music policy and studies can be found in the "Music Education" section, as well as specialist articles on this topic at the German Music Information Center.

With the German Music Information Center, the German Music Council offers a central information point on all topics of musical life.